‘KP Govt top priority to improve education’
PESHAWAR: Special Assistant to Chief Minister for Information and Higher Education Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani Tuesday said that provincial government was giving top priority for qualitative improvement of education. Addressing the Provincial Consultation on education sector conference here at a local hotel, he said the present government is committed to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all.
He said the present provincial government accepted the challenge of introducing better education system in the province and initiate a gigantic "Reforms Process" in the areas of governance, quality and excessive, results can be seen shortly. Referring the PTI agenda, he said that all departments were free to take decisions in all matters purely on merit, without any political or external pressures, adding the government had tried and succeeded in disbursing the available resources of the province equally and transparently among all the districts.
He said that though it took two and half years to streamline the decades old system of governance and administration in the province but the things have set straight now and the affairs of the province are being run in smooth manner. Mushtaq Ghanni said the present provincial government has allocated 28 percent of its total budget, both development and non-development to education and out of the total allocation earmarked for education sector in the province.