KARACHI, Sept 22: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has urged teachers to play a vital role in enhancing literacy in the city and promoting ideology of Pakistan among children. He also stressed on quality of education.

He was speaking at the concluding session of the two-day training workshop, organized by the city government and Islami Nizamat-i-Taleem, Sindh, here on Monday for principals, vice-principals and administrations of schools in the province at Al-Markaz-i-Islami.

The workshop was attended by some 1,070 principals of government and semi-private schools of Sindh, 900 of them from Karachi.

The city Nazim also urged the participants to join hands with the government in founding an ideological society.

He deplored that the propaganda of Western culture was growing in the country and said that no programme confronting the ideology, culture and society of Pakistan would be welcomed or encouraged to prevail in the city’s educational institutions.

Mr Khan said that for the first time in the history of Pakistan, 30 per cent of the city’s budget had been allocated to education. Hundreds of literacy centres are being established in the city by the Literacy Department.

Asadullah Bhutto (MNA) and Dr Mairajul Huda observed that the teachers working with devotion were playing a significant role in nation-building.—PPI