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The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) cabinet in a meeting held on Monday approved a bill proposing primary and secondary education be made compulsory for all children between five to 16 years of age.
Under the bill, education will be imparted free of cost in all public sector educational institutions.
Following the cabinet meeting, Adviser to Chief Minister on Information Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani told reporters that under the Act, the government will be responsible for providing free education to the students and parents will have to send their children to school.
"Under the Act, parents would be punishable with imprisonment up to one month or fine which may extend up to Rs100 per day or with both for not sending their children to schools," the adviser said.
Furthermore, the government will also establish an authority for ensuring attendance in schools.
The provincial cabinet also approved imparting Holy Quran (Nazra) as a compulsory subject in all public and private schools from grade one to five and translation of the Holy Quran from grade 6th to 10th for Muslim students in the province.
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Feb 06, 2017 06:21pm
A great news for KPK !!! Tx IK keep it up.... education is the only weapon for our future !
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Feb 06, 2017 06:30pm
Awesome
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Feb 06, 2017 06:26pm
Very good, that's the way to go. Nothing is more important than a good education.
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Feb 06, 2017 06:36pm
Excellent step to build nation and educated intelligent pool of public. All western nations have similar type of programs. Hopefully, these steps will be enforced.
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Feb 06, 2017 06:38pm
If KPK would be successful in implementing these human development provisions and be able to sustain them, then the province's HDI might shoot upto 0.8+ within a decade. Whereas rest of the Pakistan is in no mood to go over half a point anytime soon. By the time the busses might catch rust, KPK youth might start to enlighten the rest of the country.
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Feb 06, 2017 06:42pm
Nawaz should make compulsary all over pakistan
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Feb 06, 2017 06:46pm
A company should be formed whose profit will be spent on education at every level.
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Feb 06, 2017 07:04pm
A good step indeed but they would need to ensure that they provide good quality education with qualified teachers at par with private schools so that ppl send their kids there and can benefit from it. Expensive education in private schools and low quality education and absence of teachers in govt is the main reason why poor ppl send their kids to madrassas. If they fail in keeping a check and balance on the govt schools' quality and teachers then this step is futile.
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Feb 06, 2017 07:01pm
Well done PTI@KPK. Keep up the good work. Please review the English holidays system next.
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Feb 06, 2017 07:07pm
Hopefully not just statement but will be implemented !
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Feb 06, 2017 07:03pm
Great start!, but we have to educate parents (adult education)to support and promote education amongst their children.
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Feb 06, 2017 07:12pm
Congratulations! This should be for entire country and just one province. Without education we shouldn't even dream of making any real progress in social and economic spheres. Kudos for those who worked to make it happen.
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Feb 06, 2017 07:18pm
@Faisal bajwa All provinces should follow without waste of time
All Pakistan is ours all children are ours. Pakistan needs to progress as a whole and not in part. Be vast!
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Feb 06, 2017 07:14pm
@MUHAMMAD tiers of education should be abolished. The quality of education for the children of the rich and the poor should be same.
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Feb 06, 2017 07:23pm
@SU Khattak. What english holidays? there is hardly any foreign holiday we celebrate except for labor day. 14th august, 23rd march, iqbal day, quaid's b'day, eid, baqr eid, 12th rabiul awwal are all related to islam or to pakistan.
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Feb 06, 2017 07:28pm
@MUHAMMAD agreed, but these tiers of education came up in the first place due to sub standard education levels in the govt schools in the first place. Education system in the country was good uptill 1970s but after corruption and incompetency spread through it, the need and demand for private schools providing good quality education emerged in the country, all these private schools like beaconhouse, city etc came up during late 70s and early 80s as the result. So if kpk govt relally need to be it a succees, they need to make sure that they maintain quality education with qualified teachers otherwise it will be another white elephant.
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Feb 06, 2017 07:44pm
KPK doing quite well. Been hearing good things in Sindh about KPK police and medical reforms. This is welcoming. I hope it could only have been sooner.Much time wasted. I congratulate KPK for ending the evil hold of feudal lords and family run parties...something Sindh and Punjab are still enslaved by.
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Feb 06, 2017 08:05pm
good job
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Feb 06, 2017 08:25pm
Good step on papers only. Perhaps election are near?
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Feb 06, 2017 08:36pm
That is the way to go PTI, education and health top priorities. Good luck.
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Feb 06, 2017 09:01pm
Well done kp govt. Education is a key to success.
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Feb 06, 2017 09:17pm
That,s called decision.
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Feb 06, 2017 11:21pm
Well done! As expected. Keep up the good work.
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Feb 06, 2017 11:44pm
Hats off KPK govt, may rest of the provincial govts follow your foot steps.
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Feb 06, 2017 11:47pm
Much needed step,very commendable,i hope for its early implementation
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Feb 07, 2017 01:41am
@Imtiaz 34,000 private schools going students switched to govt run schools in KPK last year alone. Surely, there must be something good happening other than the paper work to attract such numbers to govt schools.
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Feb 07, 2017 01:54am
That is where you lay the foundation and start building a nation .Literacy rate of Pakistan is alarmingly low and consequently results in multifarious social predicaments and wrongs .Education is the stepping and corner stone for the nation to thrive and develop .It will be ideal if this approach is adopted nationally and our children are imparted free education up to at least undergraduate level like in the UK and other welfare states. Motorways will not develop the country but our children who are our future will. Thereafter , we need medical care, clean water, link roads and making Pakistan a truly Welfare state.Of course, corruption must be eradicated on war footing to get rid of black sheeps. I hail from KPK living in the UK and am proud of this vital evelopment. Well done KPK government. God bless you all who took this initiative. keep it up.
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Feb 07, 2017 02:21am
Pakistan is all set to flying higher.
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Feb 07, 2017 03:09am
Strange law, how many schools PTI has built in KPK accessible to its residents? Easy to pass a law. Kerala state in India has a law that there must be a primary school with in half a mile from every resident. That is why 100% literacy rate. What this law is going to do. Perhaps nothing.
In Canada all primary and middle schools are with in half mile distance. And secondary schools are within 1 mile distance. Otherwise city provides a bus for students.
Are all these infrastructure items in place in KPK?
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Feb 07, 2017 03:19am
Excellent.....
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Feb 07, 2017 03:23am
@MUHAMMAD What is our federal government is doing about public school system. Most funding for public education comes from Fed.......Sir
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Feb 07, 2017 06:14am
Good at least in 22 century whole of Pak will be eduated
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Feb 07, 2017 07:03am
This is what our country needs to do. Human development instead of road development which will give us nothing except kick backs. Well done KPK government.
Make sure every one follow this law and punish whosoever don't. If people are educated, clowns like zArdadi, Nawaz and their royal families will be automatically eliminated from politics system and hopefully clean, educated and sensible lot will come to the assembly.
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Feb 07, 2017 07:00am
This is the best news for the children of KPP, all the credit goes to PTI government and Imran Khan, hope Sind and Baluchistan government will follow KPP lead, as far as PMNL-N government, don't except Punjab government will do the same soon, right now their priority is to defend Nawaz Sharif's corruptions.
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Feb 07, 2017 10:29am
The great decisions we have long been waiting for. Let us hope that we will not wait to much for implementation of these decisions.
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Feb 07, 2017 11:00pm
Another empty slogan waved by PTI, even before it was free. The problem is the quality education which is not there. There is a need of uniform educations system and the solution to that is quality education which lacks in govt schools.
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