ANP lawmaker asks govt to make Edu sector a priority

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak has said that frequent experiments in the education sector have negative implications.

According to a statement from Bacha Khan Markaz, Babak – who was education minister during the ANP government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – expressed these views at a meeting of the assembly’s Standing Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education. The ANP leader said the closed-door meetings would not achieve any results in improving the situation.

He stressed the need for taking the stakeholders into confidence before the formulation of policies. Babak urged the government to include education in the priority sectors, saying that thousands of positions were lying vacant in the education department and need to be filled through merit.

He said that fake testing services should be banned forthwith and qualified people recruited through their educational credentials.

Babak said that the government had not allocated a budget for establishing new educational institutes. He also demanded reforms in the syllabi.

He said that the service structure for teachers should be formulated to enable qualified teachers to get promotions.