Minister says 200 smart schools to be set up

LAKKI MARWAT: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Minister Muhammad Atif Khan has said that the government will set up smart schools in place of those hit by blasts, floods and earthquake in the province.

This he said while talking to journalists here on Wednesday after a visit to a model smart school in Tajazai area.

Additional Chief Secretary Azam Khan, education department secretary Shehzad Bangash, additional secretary Qaiser Alam, director Rafiq Khattak and DEOs Haziqur Rehman and Sabira Parveen, district nazim Ishfaq Ahmad Khan, deputy commissioner Muhammad Bakhtiar Khan and DPO Muhammad Hasan Iqbal were also present on the occasion.

The minister inspected the classrooms, staff rooms, latrines and other facilities at the smart school made of prefabricated containers. The minister was told that the school would be weather friendly and that air conditioners would be installed in classrooms. After discussing the pros and cons of the model smart school, Atif said that 200 such schools would be established in militancy and calamity-hit areas of the province if the idea went successful.