GILGIT, Aug 29: The speaker, Northern Areas Legislative Council, Malik Mohammad Miskeen, has appreciated the role played by Aga Khan Education Service in promoting quality education in the area.

He was addressing the concluding session of week-long workshop on Monday organized by the Aga Khan Education Service in collaboration with Northern Areas Education Department in Chilas, headquarters of Diamer district.

The workshop was organized to introduce new methodologies, vision and ways of management aimed at flourishing of education in mountainous areas.

The NALC speaker said that it was time to educate people in line with the demands of the new era.

He said that the government was making all its efforts to provide quality education to the people of the region and it had allocated huge funds for education sector and was setting up new academic institutions to impart quality education in the remote areas of the country.—APP