Education watchdogs mooted

Published April 4, 2007

PESHAWAR, April 3: National Accountability Bureau (Frontier) director-general AVM Tahir Rafique Butt has said that there is a need of setting up watchdog bodies in educational institutions to bring attitudinal changes in students.

Addressing a conference titled “Inclusion of anti-corruption theme in the syllabus at the university level”, he said the academic think-tank could play a vital role and lend us a helping hand towards elimination of corruption from society.

The DG underscored the need for attitudinal change in society with focus on the youth and invited guidelines from quarters concerned to address the issue.

He said that political will was important towards achieving the objective of a corruption-free society.

He emphasised the need for building young generation through inculcating skills and habits of healthier nation by imparting requisite knowledge.

NAB official Brig Musadaq Abassi said that most effective tool to check corruption was that a society should be aware of its rights.—APP

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