Observer Report
Karachi
Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood said the federal government was ready to implement the Uniform National Curriculum from April 2021 in public schools and August 2021 in private schools.
He was addressing a Future Summit held here on Wednesday.
The minister said there is a provincial meeting on November 23 to review the situation in schools and there will be no compromise on the issue of children’s health. “We are trying to unify the curriculum in the whole country. The system of local government is ready,” he added.
Talking about the challenges of the education system in Pakistan, Mr Shafqat said, “There are a number of things and challenges including literacy rate, out of schools problems. We have education apartheid, in which we have different education systems including elite base education system which only caters many of us, government schools system unfortunately negate led for last 70 years.”
“Then there is a religious school system (madrassah) and all having their own certificates and curriculum,” he added.
The Education Minister stated: “Education gives you a way of understanding different things in the world. We are trying to address fully through something we called Single National Curriculum. We will make sure that all students in Pakistan will have the same learning outcome and try to address the question of language as English has become a “class” not a learning opportunity.” ”Fixing educational matters by April 2021 in government schools and in August in private schools,” Shafqat Mehmood announced.
Mehmood said: “We are launching a special programme for the out of school children and expanding the programme Waseela-e-Taleem so maximum number of children may go to schools and also focusing on technology to reach out to
teachers and students including TeleSchool.
“The government is going to Radio Schools for class 1 to class 5 within a few days,” he announced.
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Power Tabish Gauhar said Tuesday the monopoly of power distribution companies will be scrapped from the country soon, ARY News reported.
With the involvement of the Supreme Court in the matter of power distribution, SAPM Tabish Gauhar said the long-overdue matter will soon be resolved.
He said Shanghai Electric is not coming to Pakistan which has become a dilemma for the sole power distribution company of Karachi.
Gauhar said even after the monopoly has ended with new entrants foraying into the market of power generation and distribution, the distribution setup will remain the same used by KE.
SAPM on Power and former K Electric chief executive officer Gauhar said if KE does not improve its performance and distribution to Karachi citizens then the government will intervene and decide on its fate. However, he confirmed the
government has not as yet decided to reclaim KE.
On the power generation and requirements, Gauhar said KE should claim 2000 Mega Watt power from the national grid and said be it the coal or gas, referring to the fuels they produce which are consumed in power generation, priority must
be given to the province of origin first.
Address by Ghias Khan President Engro Pakistan
The purpose of this conference is to learn from each other’s experiences The world has changed since the system code.
Pakistan also had the opportunity to improve its economy and health I congratulate the federal government for making better decisions. Our foreign exchange reserves have improved a lot We need a private partnership with some sectors to deregulate.
The current account deficit is over but the cost of electricity needs to be reduced. Other electricity distribution companies also need to be brought to market.
In 2000, the fertilizer sector was subsidized in the price of gas 90% of farmers use someone else’s land to grow crops. We need to work to develop our products . The import bill for petroleum products is more than 3 3 billion. There is a great need for
work in this sector.
Dr. Shamshad Akhtar
address. We face different challenges. Economic stability is very important for the prosperity of any society.
The Code poses various challenges for developed countries, along with environmental issues. Prior to the Code, there was little advocacy against climate change in the world. We have seen an increase in public financing.
There is an urgent need for a green policy for various industries. The Great 20 countries spent the most on the green industry in the epidemic.
Currently, work is being done in the field of food security in the world. It said that greenfield agriculture is declining rapidly.
