Staff Reporter
Karachi
Meeting of Chairman PSX with Minister for Education, Shafqat Mehmood. Issues related to literacy Campaign of PSX for creating awareness about capital market of Pakistan discussed and the Chairman PSX requested for the support of Education Ministry for the same. The Chairman PSX suggested that the Government may approve addition of information about the Capital Market, Stock Exchange and Equity Investments in the curriculum from Intermediate level and up to the level of Business Studies so that the students get familiar with the relevant terms and can develop the habit of savings and investment in their early years of their life. He further added, that the regional countries have been working on the same model and they are even offering degree programs about capital market and as a result the numbers of investors in those countries are far higher than Pakistan. The Minister appreciated the idea of Chairman and the efforts of PSX in creating awareness in the masses and assured his complete cooperation in this respect.
