Ijaz Kakakhel Islamabad
Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Rana Tanveer Hussain on Friday informed the national assembly that the government’s resolve to bring the number of out of school children in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) to zero by June this year.
Replying to a question during the Question Hour in the National Assembly, the minister said there are around seventy thousand out of school children in the federal capital and every effort will be made to enroll these children. He said the government has also started Schools on Wheels initiative in Islamabad to provide education to the children of rural areas. He said under this initiative, state of the art buses equipped with necessary facilities including toilet are sent to rural areas.
Replying to a question, he said the federal government, on the direction of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, is also planning to provide Schools on Wheels facility to the children of flood-affected areas of the Balochistan and Sindh. He said the WB also intended to introduce such system in Africa.
The ministry was ready to assist other provinces if the provincial governments provided buses, he said.
The Minister said the government has also undertaken accelerated learning program with the cooperation of the United Kingdom to enhance literacy rate in the country.
He further said we have also started tele-schools and focusing on distance learning. The chair referred the matter for further deliberation to the standing committee concerned.
Parliamentary Secretary for Railways Kiran Imran Dar through another question said that the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) had earned around Rs 59-60 million profit in the first quarter (January-March) of the current year.
