PESHAWAR, Oct 25: The NWFP Minister for Education, Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gilani has stressed upon the experts to see as to why despite the fact that huge investment is being made continuously by the government but the people are not ready to send their children to the government schools particularly those who could afford admission for their children in private sector institution.

Of course, it means that though the government schools are well equipped, its teachers well qualified and highly paid as compared to those of the private sector but even then the standard of education there is far below than that of the private sector.

He was opening a one day workshop on education organized by President’s Task Force on Human Resource Development and attended by everybody who is anybody in the education department including the Vice Chancellor of Peshawar University, as well as the former Vice Chancellor of Peshawar University, Dr Abdul Mateen, members of the Task Force and representatives of different education related NGOs.

Mr Gilani pointed out that everything was available in the government sector schools from spacious buildings to trained teachers to directors but the only thing missing was education.

Again, he said that “we have to fight in the government sector schools, as the war for education is inside there” and the problem could not be solved by establishing a few model or cadet college type of institutions as vast majority of the students is there (in government schools).

He also pointed to the experts that “it is very easy to say that if we have honest teachers, ministers and other attached personnel but ours is an un-perfect society and we have to go with all this.”