KARACHI, June 12: The city government will set up 36 model schools in Karachi, compatible with Pakistan’s most reputed educational institutions, next year at a cost of Rs400 million.

“Our mission is to increase literacy rate to cent per cent during the next 10 years for which efforts have been geared up in coordination with the private sector,” said City Nazim Mustafa Kamal while laying the foundation stone of a CPLC school in Federal B Area on Monday.

DIG Operation Mushtaq Shah, CPLC Chief Sharfuddin Memon, Deputy Chief Ahmed Zia and a number of industrialists and police officers were present on the occasion.

Mustafa Kamal said that poor and middle class families were perturbed that their children would not be able to compete with those passing out from private schools. “Our effort is to remove such fears from their minds and improve government school standards so that they prefer admission of their wards in government schools,” he said adding that this task can be performed with the cooperation of private sector.

CPLC Chief Sharfuddin Memon said that besides liaison with police, the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee was also carrying out welfare activities. He said the construction and later management of this school would involve an expenditure of Rs10.7 million where students would be provided uniform, books and copies free of cost.

CPLC Deputy Chief Ahmed Zia said that the committee would establish three more such schools.

DIG Operation Mushtaq Shah appreciated the performance of CPLC and said that it was helping the police a lot, particularly through its data base.

CPLC Zonal Chief Waseem Qadri highlighted the aims and objectives of the project.

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