PESHAWAR: Provincial Minister for Secondary & Elementary Education, Sardar Hussein Babak has said that out of 249 schools destroyed in the devastated earthquake of October 2005, the construction of 91 have been completed while work on 64 was in progress.
This, he stated while replying quarries of the legislators during the question hour of the provincial assembly on Tuesday. He said that construction of the remaining 94 schools would be started soon, saying the government is framing strategy and funds were being provided by foreign donors.
Regarding the future of the mosque and maktab schools, he assured appropriate measures on the availability of the financial resources. He said that maktab schools would be upgraded to primary status in the next annual development programme.
He said that those schools, which had no student, would be merged with the nearest primary school. The government had already started second shift in different schools under the public-private partnership.
The provincial minister said that the government has also planned to run schools in seminaries and a committee has also been constituted to contact those who are running such institutions. He said that if they agree with the government beside religious educations, the students of such seminaries would also be taught school education. The step, he said would be resolve the problem of the shortage of schools in the province.
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