KARACHI, July 7: Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Ali Mohammed Khan Mahar has said that the government has been taking effective measures to provide better education and health facilities to the masses.

He stated this while talking to the chief provincial officer of UNICEF, Sindh, Ms Zeba Bukhari, on Monday.

The chief minister said that free primary education, provision of uniforms and books, breakfast to the students of primary classes, and sports facilities up to the level of high schools were some of the major steps taken by the provincial government to improve the facilities at educational institutions.

He said that government was making efforts to promote girls’ education, for whom recruitment of more female teachers was being planned. He observed that government was achieving positive results of its efforts.

Talking about the health sector, the chief minister said that necessary facilities, including the dialysis machines, were being provided in all the district hospitals.

He expressed the hope that the Unicef and other institutions would continue playing their important role for the promotion of education and provision of better health facilities to the masses.

The chief provincial officer of Unicef, Ms Zeba Bukhari, stressed on the co-ordinated efforts for the programmes like polio eradication, AIDS control programmes, and projects of health, potable water and education.

Meanwhile, Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Committee Gen Muhammad Aziz Khan met the chief minister at the Chief Minister House on Monday.

They discussed various matters of national and provincial importance. The chief minister apprised Gen Aziz about development projects of Sindh and priorities of government for the current fiscal.

He paid tributes to the armed forces for the services, they rendered to defend the borders in difficult times. “Our forces considered as the most skillful, courageous and alert of the few in the world,” he said.

Later, Gen Aziz also met provincial ministers, advisors, chief secretary and the IGP.

—PPI