Five thousand five hundred schools will be opened in the North West Frontier province (NWFP) under public-private co-operation so that maximum out of 2.6 million schoolchildren could be enrolled.
This was decided in a meeting chaired by the NWFP Minister for Schools and Literacy on Wednesday at the Civil Secretariat Peshawar. The Minister directed to finalise the necessary documents by 15th January.
It was decided that the EDOs of the respective districts will select sites and details will be worked out jointly by the CPO and MD, Elementary Education Foundation. These schools will be opened in rented buildings and no new building will be constructed for the reason.
The Education Department and Elementary Education Foundation will supervise the management, training monitoring and financial support. Further, Private sector partners and individuals intending to work for the promotion of education will run these schools while books and stationery will be provided free of cost. Teachers will be enrolled from the local society.
The meeting also decided that teachers of private schools would be trained in PITE and RITE institutions of the province. The minister announced that the literacy centres and public-private partnership schemes would also be strengthened to ensuer 100 percent literacy rate in the province.
The NWFP minister urged the officers and officials of education department to come forward and lead the nation by providing energetic and educated men and women in all sectors of life. The Secretary Schools and Literacy, Special Secretary Education, M D Elementary Foundation and CPO Education were present in the meeting.