Minister of State for Education Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli has said the government is committed to providing all missing facilities to educational institutions to make environment congenial for students.
She said that committees comprising local officials and an army engineer had been formed in the targeted areas and the project designed to provide these facilities was underway successfully. Replying to a question, she said according to National Education Census, there were 70,000 educational institutions running without basic facilities such as boundary walls, toilets, drinking water, etc across the country.
The minister said the government was taking concrete steps to equip every student with quality education and the newly-revised syllabus addressing all contemporary and future challenges would go a long way to achieve the objective.
Anisa said that strict criteria had been laid down to ensure quality books that could effectively put across the concepts of the curriculum to the students. She said more resources were being allocated for hiring quality teachers, who played pivotal role in country's development, for the successful implementation of the curriculum.