PM Imran Khan launches Tele School TV channel

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan launched Tele School TV channel and said the government will utilise all its resources to improve the channel.

He maintained the channel would also benefit children living in far-flung areas. Speaking at the launching ceremony here Monday, the prime minister said the aim of the initiative was to provide education to children at their doorsteps during the lockdown situation.

Terming it a great concept particularly in remote areas of the country where there was no infrastructure for primary education, he said the initiative should continue after the end of pandemic. The prime minister congratulated the ministry of federal education and professional training and state TV for collaborating in launching of the channel and said it was a revolution in the present situation as the whole world was heading toward distance education. He said there were complaints of below standard education in government schools in remote areas and also referred to a number of such complaints in his home constituency Mianwali. He said the tele school TV channel was a productive opportunity for the parents and said the step would also help a large number of children who had been dropped out of schools. He said Pakistan lagged behind in tele education and tele medicines and said through this system and mobile phones, adult education would also be promoted. Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood said around 20 million children in the country were out of schools and during the last 70 years, literacy was just 60 percent, in which those people had also been included literate who could just write their name.