PESHAWAR
KP Minister for Elementary & Secondary Education, Shahram Khan Tarakai has directed the authorities of the department to bring the salaries of the employees of second shift in schools at par with the officially fixed minimum wages.
He issued these directives while presiding over a review meeting regarding second shift schools and ongoing enrollment campaign here on Monday. Besides, Special Secretary Barkatullah, Additional Secretary (Reforms) Asfandyar Khattak, Additional Secretary (General) Abdul Karam, Managing Director (MD) Private Schools Regulatory Authority (PSRA), Kabeer Khan Afridi and Director Elementary & Secondary Education, Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim, other higher authorities also attended the meeting.
The provincial minister said that as per a report of the Education Monitoring Authority, he has approved the inclusion of 228 more schools in the second shift.
He said that so far 17665 employees including ministerial staff are working in the second shift schools while 25765 boys and 10280 girls are getting education in the existing 1181 schools. He said that the students of the second shift schools have shown best results in the recently announced results by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education.
He further directed the updating of the talent pool of the present and recruitment of teachers in second shift schools.
During a briefing regarding the enrollment drive, the provincial minister was told that more than 0.3 million children have been enrolled. He directed the activation of all teams of the education department at tehsil, circle and district levels to achieve their target of enrollment till the end of the current month.
Shahram Khan Tarakai directed the provision of complete details about boys and girls students on the dashboard and formation of regional level committees under the supervision of the Additional Secretaries, which would be responsible for provision of online record of the enrollment drive including boys and girls students.
The provincial minister directed the utilization of all available resources for the ongoing enrollment drive and action against those who have shown poor performance.
