PESHAWAR, Jan 31: The NWFP government has outlined a comprehensive policy ushering in a revolution in education besides promoting result-oriented higher education in the province, says NWFP's senior minister Sirajul Haq.

He said this while talking with the new vice-chancellor of the NWFP University of Engineering and Technology, Syed Imtiaz Hussain Geelani, who called on him here at his office here on Friday.

The NWFP's senior minister said lack of technical education and shortage of experts was badly affecting the province, adding this was the main reason the desired goals in various sectors remained unachievable.

He said the provincial government had adopted a realistic approach in this regard by providing free education up to matriculation level besides establishment of a women's medical college and a university, adding it had also adopted a well- conceived strategy to promote technical education in government- run schools of the province.

Syed Imtiaz Hussain Geelani while assuring full cooperation to the provincial government in this respect, said that the university's Peshawar campus and its branches in Bannu, Abbottabad and Mardan would be fully streamlined to cater admissions in various engineering disciplines.

Meanwhile, talking to a delegation, comprising representatives of private schools and universities, Sirajul Haq stressed the need for equipping the youth with religious as well as modern education.

He said that educational institutions, instead of preparing armies of clerks, should divert their energies on producing talented engineers, doctors, scientists, teachers and experts in various disciplines.-PPI