DLP report
PESHAWAR
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) minister for elementary and secondary education Shahram Khan Tarkai has directed the education department, monitoring staff, Construction & Works (C&W) and other concerned authorities that the new and upgraded schools should be constructed in accordance to the respective design.
He added that classrooms should be well ventilated and well lighted, while the use of high quality materials in construction work should be ensured. He directed that the monitoring staff of the education department would be responsible for ensuring the completion of the construction work as per design. According to the information that design engineers would also be part of the monitoring team.
He further added that legal action will be taken against the contractors if found guilty. He issued these directives while presiding over the education department Schools design and ADP Review Meeting. The Education Minister directed the design engineers to make modern designs for all the new rooms being constructed in the schools of the Education Department.
Outdated and old designs are not acceptable and directed the authorities to send a report on Kalu Khan and Kalodher schools as soon as possible. Shahram Khan Tarkai said that special care should be taken of greenery in the design of schools so that best schools could be built at low cost and the monitoring staff should regularly pay surprise visits to all work in progress and submit report to him in this regard. In the ADP review meeting, the Education Minister was given a detailed briefing on the ongoing and new projects of the Education Department. The Minister directed that a report on the number of vacancies in government schools in the entire province should be submitted within a week.
He said that education is the top priority and it is necessary to have a teacher in every class for which we will talk to the finance department so that all the vacancies can be approved. He said that in addition to the recently advertised vacancies for more than twenty thousand posts, new vacancies would be filled as soon as possible.
