OPF providing over Rs110mn subsidy annually to its schools

ISLAMABAD: Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) is providing over Rs110 million subsidy annually to its 25 schools and two colleges across the country.

Talking to APP, Managing Director OPF Israr Khan Jamali said that 25 schools and two colleges one for male and other for female are running under its control adding that annually OPF is providing over Rs110 million subsidy to the schools including Rs3.5 million for rented buildings.

He said that all OPF schools are offering only conventional education but in the recent meeting of National Assembly Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis it has been suggested that the technical education should be launched in OPF educational institutions.

Israr Jamali said that NA body appreciated the SSC result of OPF schools across the country and proposed the establishment of new schools in Khuzdar, Loralai and Tharparkar because the people of these areas are working abroad.

He informed that in the recent meeting of NA standing committee and Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis it has been recommended that Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment (BEOE) and Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC) should be brought under the administrative control of Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis.

The federal government in the line of 18th amendment has created a new Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) and transferred the administrative control of BEOE and OEC from Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis to the new Ministry of HRD.

To a question MD, OPF Israr Khan Jamali said that three members who belong to the Balochistan would be included in the body of Board of Governors of OPF.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011