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PESHAWAR: The provincial government has resolved to make the process of procurement for education departments more transparent so that its opponents do not get an opportunity to level allegations.

On Monday, while addressing the inauguration of a training course on procurement of supplies arranged for officials of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Elementary and Secondary Education Department, Minister for Education Muhammad Atif Khan said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government’s main purpose is to facilitate the people. “Until government employees are equipped with proper training, they will not be able to deliver as required,” said Khan.

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The minister further said non-governmental organisations have been putting all their efforts into improving the sector because the budget of the education department is usually insufficient to meet all requirements.

“However, the education department has planned to allocate a separate budget for holding training sessions for its employees and to equip them with modern techniques,” maintained Khan. Professional training is necessary to improve the performance of government-run institutions, he added.

According to the minister, the provincial government is spending millions of rupees on teachers’ trainings and is taking initiatives for capacity building of the department’s officials. “There should be a transparent system in place to gauge the performance of trainees before and after the training concludes,” said Khan.

The training course is being held in Peshawar in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and is a part of K-P Education Support Programme (KPESP).

The KPESP is a five-year programme designed to help the provincial education department realise the objectives of its education sector plans, including strengthening public financial management and procurement system.

Out of the 17,500 employees of the education department, around 250-300 have been selected for the course which will conclude at the end of May. The government also plans to conduct the training in Swat and Abbottabad.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 25th, 2014.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

[Badlun]

Every thing in Urdu for Pashtuns of KP!!!!!!!!
Why Pashtuns do not ask their government to talk to them in their language!
The literacy campaign is also in Urdu. I know many Pashtuns in KP cannot read or understand Urdu.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

Every thing in Urdu for Pashtuns of KP!!!!!!!!
Why Pashtuns do not ask their government to talk to them in their language!
The literacy campaign is also in Urdu. I know many Pashtuns in KP cannot read or understand Urdu.

Understand,I believe many do.infact atleast 80% does understand urdu

Anyone who can read urdu,can read pashto aswell.

I have studied pashto only for 2-3years and still i can easily not only read but can write aswell

[Badlun]

Understand,I believe many do.infact atleast 80% does understand urdu

Anyone who can read urdu,can read pashto aswell.

I have studied pashto only for 2-3years and still i can easily not only read but can write aswell

What is the literacy rate of Pakistan? Maximum 50%. For Pashtuns it will be less like 40%.How 80% understands or read Urdu?

Suppose they understand Urdu but still Pashto is their mother tongue. Have you read the constitution of Pakistan? It is the duty of the government to promote the regional languages. How can you promote when you never use Pashto?
Have you read the UN policy on mother tongue? It is our international obligation to use mother tongue.

If Pashtuns understand or do not understand Urdu, it is their right that Pashto should be the medium of communication with them. They must struggle for their this right. they must denounce all such publicity material which is not in their language.

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

What is the literacy rate of Pakistan? Maximum 50%. For Pashtuns it will be less like 40%.How 80% understands or read Urdu?

Suppose they understand Urdu but still Pashto is their mother tongue. Have you read the constitution of Pakistan? It is the duty of the government to promote the regional languages. How can you promote when you never use Pashto?
Have you read the UN policy on mother tongue? It is our international obligation to use mother tongue.

If Pashtuns understand or do not understand Urdu, it is their right that Pashto should be the medium of communication with them. They must struggle for their this right. they must denounce all such publicity material which is not in their language.

Literacy rate as per 2008-09 was 57% and 50% for KPK.Must be 62-63% for whole Pakistan now and atleast 55-56% for KPK

http://finance.gov.pk/survey/chapter_10/10_Education.pdf

Understanding spoken urdu is easily,even for uneducated.Reading is difficult

The rest i agree with you that Pashto language should be made compulsory till intermediate atleast

[Da Bannu Mazdigar]

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will announce a package of incentives to boost local industries and strengthen the province’s economy. The package will include provision of cheap and uninterrupted electricity to industries to attract local and foreign investments, and privatising industrial zones.

These views were expressed by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak while presiding over a meeting regarding infrastructure development at Hattar Industrial Estate in Haripur, here on Friday.

Mr Khattak said energy crisis was the main issue facing the industries, adding that KP was producing far more electricity and gas than its domestic needs. He asked the centre to review its policy towards Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to remove the sense of deprivation and usurpation of their rights among the people of the province.

The chief minister said that it had been decided to set up four new industrial zones at important commercial points in the province, besides establishing oil refinery in southern districts.

Mr Khattak said that a plan had been prepared to set up a modern steel mill in the Hattar Industrial Estate at a total investment of Rs700 billion with a production capacity of 650,000 metric tons per year. “The mill besides catering to the province’s needs of steel will also provide job opportunities to about 35,000 people,” he added.

On the demand of the industrialists, the chief minister ordered formation of a high level committee for the revival of the sick industrial units. He said uninterrupted electricity and gas supply would be ensured to the industrial estate. Similarly, he directed early construction and repair of all roads inside the industrial complex.

Mr Khattak directed that flow of traffic on Hattar and other roads should be regulated on the pattern of the motorway. He also agreed to demands of the entrepreneurs to establish a modern hospital in the estate and provide residential facilities and dowry fund for the workers, besides setting up a medical college and other professional institutions for their children.

He also agreed to grant leases for exploration of local minerals and directed the industries and mineral development department to give priority to local industrialists in that regard.

To a demand regarding exclusion of fuel adjustment charges from electricity bills, he said the provincial government would file an appeal with the Supreme Court seeking extension of the relief not only to sick industries, but also to the poor masses of the province.

The chief minister said the provincial government had decided to meet the electricity needs of the domestic and commercial consumers separately at local levels. “The provincial energy department has chalked out a plan with focus on exploiting the hydel power potential of the northern districts, besides producing electricity through oil, gas and solar means,” he added.

Mr Khattak said his government would provide all the required facilities and guarantees to those desirous to make investment in the province so the badly affected economy of the province could be revived and maximum opportunities of employment and business could be made available to the jobless people.

The chief minister underlined the need for convening joint meetings of local industrialists, investors, representatives of chambers of commerce and high ups of concerned departments to develop partnership between the public and private sectors for reviving industries and overcoming the energy crisis.

PTI MPA from Haripur Akbar Ayub, president of Hattar Industrial Association Malik Mohammad Farid, secretary general Taj Ghani and other office bearers, advisor to CM on economic affairs and investment Rafaqatullah Babar, chairman of CM’s complaints’ cell and focal person for donors’ organisations Haji Dilroz Khan, and other concerned officials attended the meeting.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1100893/kp-industries-to-get-cheap-uninterrupted-electricity-cm

MARDAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Education Mohammad Atif Khan has said that provincial government has recruited 8,090 teachers so far and measures are being taken to recruit 6,000 more teachers.

Addressing a ceremony held here at Government High School Bekat Ganj No.1 on Monday to distribute uniforms among the students, he alleged that the previous government ignored education sector.

The minister said that it was the mission of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government to create awareness among people about importance of education.

He said that the government was planning to launch different training programmes for teachers to improve their teaching skills. A huge fund would be allocated in the coming budget for the purpose, he added.

Mr Khan claimed that they uprooted the mafias that used to increase marks of weak students through illegal means. He said that from the next year, each primary school in the province would have six rooms instead of two and six teachers would be appointed there.

The minister said that about 0.2 million teachers were performing duty at 28,500 schools in the province. “We are also working on a plan to introduce a monitoring system to ensure presence of both teachers and students in the schools,” Mr Khan said.

SCHEMES: Dr Mehr Taj Roghani, the special assistant to chief minister on social welfare and women development, said here on Monday that government allocated Rs500 million for different schemes to help physically challenged persons and poor widows.

She was addressing a prize distribution ceremony at Special Education Complex, Mardan.

Ms Roghani said that special children were like special flowers and those, who looked after such children were blessed. She said that the government was committed to providing all kinds of facilities to them.

She said that it was collective responsibility of all citizens to come forward and play their due role in helping special people.

“The chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Imran Khan, has allocated Rs500 million for poor widows and persons with disabilities out of which Rs250 million have already been released on the recommendation of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak,” Ms Roghani said.

About the demands of officials of Special Education Complex regarding provision of books, the special assistant to chief minister said that the provincial government was planning to set up printing press to resolve the issue of book printing.

Ms Roghani said that she would take up the issue with authorities concerned to upgrade Special Education Complex.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1101478/over-8000-teachers-recruited-in-kp-says-minister

[Baraki]

looks like IK is finally doing something for his blood brothers

[Toramana]

PTI govt is complete failure. According to latest reports, business and industries are fast shifting from KP to other provinces due to worsening conditions of security. And despite the slogans of educational emergency, condition of education is in shambles.

Only gullible PTI kids can believe the construction of 350 dams a hollow vow made by Taleb Khan to deceive Pashtun masses once again. It would be a great achievement if Taleb Khan and his team could construct even 5 dams.

[Toramana]

http://tribune.com.pk/story/701225/extortionists-calling-one-way-ticket-from-peshawar/

Extortionists calling: One-way ticket from Peshawar

PESHAWAR: When the first sinister phone call came, wealthy industrialist Z* dismissed it as an empty threat. A day later, a handwritten letter in Pashto language was sent to his Hayatabad Industrial Estate (HIE) plant in which extortionists demanded Rs200 million.

Within the week, a rocket was fired at his factory from the neighbouring Khyber Agency, with this crystal clear message: pay up or perish.

While the government and the Taliban explore the possibility of an elusive peace deal, the frontline province in the battle against ...

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PTI’s education emergency in KP yields no concrete results

PESHAWAR: No visible improvement has been witnessed anywhere in the province and not a single project of significance could be launched for promotion of education since an ‘education emergency’ was clamped in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led coalition government.

Provincial Minister for Education Mohammad Atif Khan, in his recent presentation to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, presented a dismal picture of the situation and showed his inability to overcome it.

According to him, about 3,365 schools destroyed by the 2005 earthquake, floods and militancy needed reconstruction, 1,008 schools have no building at all and are referred to as shelterless schools while 30 percent of the total 28,500 schools have no boundary walls at all.

“We need 22,000 more schools in the province for the out-of-school children. We also need to construct 20,000 more rooms in the existing facilities to accommodate the increasing number of students. It would cost Rs1.3 million to construct one room and the provincial government doesn’t have funds,” he remarked.

He said some 159 schools were closed in different parts of the province mostly because teaching staff was not available. Some 46 percent of the existing schools lacked electricity, 48 percent had no lavatory and water was missing in 36 percent of schools, he added.

He said they needed Rs7 billion to provide furniture to the schools, but lacked the required resources.The only thing that the minister confidently termed as a good initiative of the provincial government was the monitoring units and introduction of biometric system. He said the system has been introduced in 100 offices and would be gradually extended to schools to check the attendance and performance of the teaching and non-teaching staffers. According to sources, even the monitoring system was a project of the previous government being implemented now.

Unable to arrange funds for the schools’ reconstruction and provision of other facilities, the minister declared to launch “Tameer-e-School Programme” for which donations would be collected from well-off people for schools’ construction and reconstruction.

He, however, forgot to speak about the funds worth billions that the provincial government has already received from various international donors for different projects in the education sector.

Disappointed with the sorry situation, one of the lawmakers in the house requested the minister to lift the “emergency” so that some development could take place in this most vital sector.

Education and health were the prime focus of the PTI-led government after taking over power in the province and the party wanted to keep both the portfolios. The party leadership claimed it had made plans for promotion of education and healthcare delivery system. But it badly failed to deliver in both the sectors. So poor was its performance in the health sector that the PTI preferred to surrender the important health portfolio to a minor coalition partner – Awami Jamhoori Ittehad Pakistan.

The situation of education, which the PTI had refused to give to Jamaat-e-Islami on the plea that it had done better planning for it, is no different.Additional Secretary Qaiser Alam was, however, optimistic about the situation. Reached by phone for comments, he said they had done the groundwork for reforms in education sector.

“We want to do 20 years of work in just five years. It will require time to bring education revolution in the province,” he said. “We have done mapping, prepared designs and collected proper data. The requirements are much more and we are making makeshift arrangements on stop-gap basis,” he said. However, he was unable to mention something concrete done so far even though there is an education emergency in the province.

Former education minister Sardar Hussain Babak was lost for words when asked about the so-called education emergency. “I wonder what they have done so far. Even the process of development could not be started,” he said.

He said that even the set policy for transfers, posting and recruitment was badly violated. No training for teachers could be arranged and vacant positions in schools could not be filled, he said. He ridiculed the additional secretary education’s statement that they had made mapping and reminded that this had been done by the previous government.

JUI-F’s Maulana Fazle Ali Haqqani, another former education minister, was also disappointed with the situation.Even basic work for promotion of education could not be done, he said, adding that the provincial government had been claiming to end class-based education system.

“How can they do so when their own leader Asad Qaiser was running a large system of private schools? The class-based system cannot be done away with by changing the medium of instruction but by ending the social stratification in the society,” he said. He said the government had failed to reconstruct even a single damaged school or build a new one.

He said when he was the minister in the Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government effective steps were taken to enrol the out-of-school children.“For the purpose, we started providing free books and uniforms to the students. We exempted them from school fee and other expenses and about 800,000 of the total 1,500,000 out-of-school children were enrolled in schools,” he said.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-7-246291-PTIs-education-emergency-in-KP-yields-

[gadoonwal]

all PTI leaders and members need death sentence for killing pashtu language.
They are sponsored by hamid gul.

[Pakwatan]

all PTI leaders and members need death sentence for killing pashtu language.
They are sponsored by hamid gul.

Apki soch wakay ghatiya hain.

Asi bad duwa de gah, toh tumaray ghar ponch jaye gi.

Aap Pashto zubaan ke ghazi ho, to sunao.

Koi Pashto shahiri. Pashto ghazal. Pashto mein kuch toh sunao.

Main apki izat toh boht kaar ta hun, magar yeh apki soch galaat hain.

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http://www.nation.com.pk/national/30-Jun-2014/kpk-government-plans-to-launch-17-energy-projects

KPK Government plans to launch 17 energy projects


PESHAWAR-The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in order to take full advantage of the province's potential in hydel power generation, has planned to launch 17 new energy projects in 2014-15 to cater the growing energy demands of consumers, agriculture and industries.


The major projects planned by the KPK government for upcoming fiscal year include construction of 300 MW Balakot HPP District Mansehra, Construction of 14 MW Ghorband HPP District Shangla and building of 84 MW Matiltan Gorkin HPP in Swat.


Officials sources in Civil Secretariat have disclosed that the government intends to start work on 69 MW Lawi energy project in Chitral besides focusing on development of renewable energy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.


In addition to it, the government has also planned construction of 10 MW Nandihar Hydro Power Project (HPP) in District Batagram and 51 MW Mujigaram Shaghore HPP in District Chitral.


Chitral's location is very ideal for hydro power generation and to take full advantage of this potential 52 MW Istaro Booni HPP District Chitral would also be constructed. Likewise, the Government has also planned to start work on mega 79 MW Arkari Gol HPP in District Chitral in current fiscal year.


To develop the potential of the province in hydel power generation, officials said emphasis has been made on hydel power generation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through short, medium and long term interventions.


To materialize these projects, the government will raise the capacity of PHYDO and Energy & Power Department besides efficient utilization of net hydel profits.


To mitigate the effects of power short falls, the Government will focus on developing feasible alternate energy sources besides thrust on thermal power generation in southern districts utilizing gas.


Hydel policy framework would be developed for establishment of Oil Refinery in KPK in partnership with Pakistan State Oil (PSO). KPK has been blessed with huge hydel potential and large reserves of oil and gas exist here. These resources after developing will not only contribute in decreasing the gap between the energy demand and supply but will also help earn billion of rupees revenue for the province.


Production of oil and gas in KPK has opened new avenues of economic development in the province and that huge deposits of oil & gas have been discovered in southern belt of the province, including district Kohat, Karak and Hangu.


For uplift of energy sector, the KPK Government has allocated Rs.3046 million for 36 projects out of which 19 are ongoing with allocation of Rs.2805.399 million and 17 are new with allocation of Rs.240.601 million.


The Government is also focusing on electrification of un-electrified villages through solar and alternate energy in remaining districts of the province.


The official expressed the hope that these projects after completion would certainly make an impact on overall energy situation and greatly help to overcome on energy shortfall.

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Zindabad Imran Khan