PTI MNA inaugurates children carnival, inter-school competition

Prime Minister Imran Khan has been acting on his promise to introduce a uniform education system in the country after getting rid of the present multiple academic systems. For the purpose, the federal government and provinces are required to be on the same page irrespective of the mutual political differences.

A MNA belonging to ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Parliamentary Secretary for Aviation Division Aftab Hussain Siddiqui stated this on Saturday while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the day-long Children Carnival and Inter-School Competition held here at the Arts Council. He was the chief guest on the occasion.

The carnival was held to mark the Silver Jubilee of Foundation of the not-for-profit Green Crescent Trust (GCT) that has been running a network of over 150 charitable schools in Sindh having enrollment of 29,000 children.

Speaking on the occasion, he said PM Imran Khan in his drive to promote uniform academic facilities for students of the needy families had recently rolled out the largest ever need-based scholarship programme of the country.

He said that some 200,000 students belonging to the low-income families would be provided scholarships in four years as 50,000 such scholarships would be given on annual basis.

He said that once these students belonging to needy families would complete their education. They would be given loans under yet another initiative of the present government "Kamyab Jawan Scheme" to enable to them to do entrepreneurship.

He said that another initiative of the present government was to introduce mainstream education in the religious seminaries of the country.

He said the present government would definitely support bona fide non-governmental organizations working in the education sector like the GCT.

GCT CEO Zahid Saeed urged the government to declare educational emergency in the country with support of the provinces to deal with the alarming issues like out-of-school children.

He said that 4.2 million out-of-school children alone in Sindh was a serious challenge for the government as for this available resources and budget for the education sector had to be spent on transparent and efficient basis.