KOHAT: Parliamentary Kashmir Committee chairman MNA Shehryar Afridi has said that evening shift and scholarships will soon be started in all the educational institutions so that no child is deprived of education.

He was addressing a ceremony along with District Development Advisory Committee chairman MPA Ziaullah Bangash as chief guests on Friday to inaugurate the new building of a girls’ primary school in Mohallah Mian Badshah here.

District education officer (female) Rizwana Liaquat and a number of senior officials were present on the occasion.

They said that the PTI government under its education emergency programme had eliminated hundreds of ghost schools that were affecting the education system. Similarly, it had upgraded many middle, high and higher secondary schools and during its previous stint in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa inducted over 20,000 teachers.

The lawmakers said that the government’s steps had improved the quality of education. They said that with the increase in higher secondary schools the burden on colleges would be decreased and teachers would pay full attention to the students.

They said that the education policy of the government had been acclaimed by the whole world. Ms Rizwana Liaquat said that the government was serious about the education of girls and had constructed hundreds of schools for them.

Published in Dawn, November 20th, 2021