PESHAWAR, Aug 19: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has lauded the role of the private sector in promotion of education in the province and announced that the MMA government would continue its encouragement.

He was speaking as the chief guest at the concluding ceremony of a two-day training workshop for teachers at the Muslim Education Complex, Dalazak Road, Peshawar. It was organized by the Muslim Group of Colleges for its new batch of 75 teachers on Friday.

He said the provincial government was unsatisfied with the standard and results of the public education sector and hence drastic measures were being considered to improve it and create an environment of public-private competition for achieving the goals.

He further disclosed that the government was seriously reviewing various proposals and giving special tasks to the private sector due to its high standard and quality education.

Under a proposal, he said, private institutions would be tasked to educate a specific number of students after transferring them funds that would otherwise be spent on students in public sector institutions.

He said teachers of government schools and colleges would be provided all opportunities for improvement, including proper training facilities. However, he said that accountability under the reward and punishment policy of the government would be made all the more strict to check their poor performance and faulty examination results.

He said all exercises and endeavours of the government would go futile, including spending millions of rupees of funds on the educational sector, adult education, free provision of textbooks to students and other incentives if teachers lacked interest in their duties.—Online