Govt to improve quality of public sector education: Ahsan
By Bushra Makhdoom

Islamabad—Federal Minister for Education, Professor Ahsan Iqbal has said that providing quality education to every child is the prime goal of the Government. The basic aim of new education initiatives will be to foster creativity, innovation, pursuit of excellence, team work, and integrity among students so that they may be successful in the new knowledge revolution era. He expressed these views while talking to the country heads of UNESCO, UNICEF and UNDP in Pakistan.
“We shall try our level best to bring the public sector education at its best” said the Minister. He hoped that through healthy public-private partnership we can take leap strong jump to overcome mistakes of the past.
The Minister appraised the delegation that a massive mobilization campaign is being launched very soon for 100% primary enrolment in the schools within two years. We had exercised the same practice back in 1999 when a similar campaign brought almost over 8 lac and 76 thousand children to schools in just one day.
“Field mobilization, community participation, activation of NGOs and affective use of Government officials at district levels will be our strategy to gain 100% primary enrolment in our country special the rural area.
The Minister for Education, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal urged the UN development agencies to assist the Ministry of Education in realization of its plans in terms of technical and intellectual challenges. The Government of Pakistan will benefit from the success stories of other countries and there should be collaborated work between education Ministry and UN agencies. Ahsan Iqbal said that promoting female education ratio is a priority area. He said that we still face supply chain issues as we lack schools for the female students but it is encouraging that the girls’ enrolment is growing at double rate than the boys enrolment in our country.
The Minister for Education said that the Education Ministry shall be made a role model for all other government institutions. He said the instructions has already been given to make education ministry the first ever paper less ministry of the Government of Pakistan. The Minister told the delegation that Information Technology will be used as a governance tool to be used for the purposes of monitoring and evaluation. He said that a Pilot project where schools, colleges and universities are linked to the net and their performance ca be monitored while sitting at a safe distance will be launched.
The head of the delegation of UNICEF and UNDP said that the UN development agencies plan to introduce a unified development programme in Pakistan focusing the education sector. The Secretary Education Jehangir Bashar was also present on this occasion.