The 100-day performance of four educational departments was reviewed at a meeting of Chief Ministers Advisory Committee for Education here.
The meeting was chaired by Provincial Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat. Senior officers, including the secretaries of School Education, Higher Education, Special Education and Non-Formal Education attended the meeting. During the session, the education minister received a comprehensive briefing on the 100-day performance of the four educational departments. Expressing his satisfaction, the minister said that their performance aligns with the vision of Chief Minister Punjab. Over the past three months, he said significant steps had been taken towards educational reforms. For the first time, student council elections were held to foster leadership skills among students, and a network of cheating mafias was dismantled, he said and added that the province recorded a historic enrollment of over 1.1 million students, a first in its 20-year history. The education minister highlighted that new schools were being established at the divisional level for transgender individuals and working children.
