Evening Classes In Schools Will Launch: CM Punjab
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif presided over a meeting on Friday to review the pace of education reform programmes started under the Punjab Schools Reforms Roadmap. Among other major decision, CM Punjab said that, Evening Classes in Schools Will Launch, regards of having high enrollment rates.
The chief minister said that a programme should be evolved immediately for launching evening classes in such schools. Sharif directed the officials concerned to expand the scope of the Early Childhood Education Programme to southern districts on a priority basis.
A number of important decisions has been approved in this meeting, including payscale upgrades for teachers of primary schools and a policy for recruitment of 42,798 new teachers.
Speaking on the occasion, Sharif said recruitments should be carried out in a transparent manner in accordance with the procedure laid out by the National Testing Service.
He also told that 36,000 additional classrooms would be constructed in schools till 2018. Of these, construction of around 10,000 would be completed by provincial government and another 5,000 with support of the Department for International Development (DFID) this year.
Power supply in 5,000 schools would soon be shifted to solar energy.
The chief minister said the right to quality education would not be denied to any school-age child. He said the targets of education reforms programme would be achieved at all costs.
Sharif asked officials concerned to ensure 100 percent enrollment in schools by 2018. He said enrollment target for the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) had been fixed at 2.6 million.
Schools Education Minister Rana Mashhood, Punjab Education Foundation Chairman Engr Qamarul Islam, the chief secretary, secretaries of various departments, education experts and DFID representative Ben French were also present on the occasion.
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