KARAK: The elementary and secondary education department has decided to begin an enrolment campaign across Karak.

This was stated by district education officer Zahid Rasheed Khattak while talking to reporters here on Thursday.

The DEO said the people should send their children to government schools for enrolment.

DEO says all out-of-school children will be taken to educational institutions

He said the elementary and secondary education had already begun its enrolment campaign in the district but it would be intensified by holding awareness walks in the every nook and corner of the district.

Zahid Rasheed said it was the firm resolution of the elementary and secondary education department to bring all out-of-the-school children back to educational institutions.

“We will make every effort to achieve the provincial government’s enrolment target,” he said.

The DEO said his department had already decided to streamline the efforts of teachers as well as parent-teacher councils to ensure 100 percent enrolment of out-of-school children.

He said the department had made a special plan for the success of the enrolment campaign and that the people would be sensitised to the importance of education in the current modern era.

“Not only we want enrolment of more and more students in schools but we also want to ensure provision of quality education to students,” he said.

Zahid Rasheed said the standard of education at government schools was better than that of private educational institutions and that the department would try its best to restore the people’s confidence in government schools.

He claimed that the department had controlled absenteeism of teachers in government schools and that surprise raids were being carried out on schools.

The DEO said reward and punishment policy for teachers had been implemented across the district in letter and spirit.

He urged the people to cooperate with the education department to bring about a real change in educational system as well as to bring the maximum number of children to schools to make them useful citizens.

RESENTMENT: Teachers of Karak on Thursday resented denied of salary slips and general provident fund balance sheets and threatened to stage a sit-in outside the district account office on the matter after September 30.

Office-bearers of Tanzeem-e-Asataza Pakistan, Karak told a meeting here that the district account office didn’t provide teachers with pay slips and GPF balance sheets and that their repeated requests to the relevant officials for the purpose fallen on deaf ears.

They warned if pay slips and GPF balance sheets were not provided to teachers by September 30, then they would stage a sit-in outside the office of district account.

They said the sit-in would continue until the demand was not met.

Published in Dawn, September 5th, 2014