The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) on Wednesday organized a seminar on "Education Sector Budgeting: adequacy, efficiency and effectiveness for improving social accountability in education sector in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa". The main objective of the seminar was to highlight the importance of education and skilled human resources for long-term sustainable economic growth and development.
Education Officers (Male and Female) from all the 25 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including those belonging to the far-flung districts such as Battagram, Chitral, Kohistan, Torghar were also present. Speaking on the occasion, provincial Minister for Local Government Inayat Ullah Khan told the audience about local government election's process and reforms. He said that districts will be able to set their priorities and plan budget accordingly once the local government system was set up in the province.
Executive Director of Centre for Governance and Public Accountability Muhammad Anwar said that currently 25.02 million boys and girls between the ages of five and 16 are not in school. He told the audience that in relative terms, the province of Balochistan is home to the highest proportion of OOSC, followed by the Fata, as many as 66 per cent of children in Balochistan and 62pc in Fata are out of school. He said that 13.7m girls and 11.4m boys are out of school.
The RTI Commissioner Kaleem Ullah informed the participants about the process of Right to Information Law and the process, saying that they could lodge a complaint with Right to Information Commission in case they failed to get a reply from PIO in the given time period. Earlier, Saif Usmani gave presentation on strategic budgetary reforms value for money and told the audience that how the budget is made and what reforms should be made. According to Education Management Information System (EMIS) data set of 2012-13, a total of 3.93 million students are enrolled in government schools, while an estimated 2.5m children of school-going age are out of school, said a press release of CGPA.
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