Police to help make campuses drug-free
Education ministers say government committed to saving students from menace
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LAHORE:
Police have been asked to keep a close watch on the surroundings of educational institutions to make the campuses drug-free.
The orders came from Punjab Higher Education Minister Syed Raza Ali Gillani and Punjab School Education Minister Rana Mashhood on Saturday during a meeting at the Directorate of Staff Development, where Punjab Education Foundation Managing Director Tariq Mahmood and representatives of School Education Department, Higher Education Department and police were also present.
The meeting expressed its commitment to save students from the menace of drugs so that they could continue their studies in a healthy environment. Students should be sensitised about the hazards of smoking and other harmful drugs, so that a feeling of disgust and hatred against drugs could be developed in the younger generation, the meeting discussed.
The provincial ministers said the government was committed to ensuring the educational institutions were free from drugs.
While reviewing different projects of school education, Rana Mashood said that by 2018, 20,000 schools would be converted to solar energy. The government, he added, would be able to achieve 100% enrolment targets by 2018.
Speaking at a prize distribution ceremony at Government Islamia Postgraduate College for Women, Gillani said that co-curricular activities helped develop intellectual ken of the students and also promoted self-confidence in them to show better performance in classrooms and playgrounds.
In his address, the minister observed that speech and essay writing competitions had proved useful in reinvigorating the abilities and talent of the students.
“These competitions are part of government’s commitment to help students grow confidently. It will help the students to exhibit their individual talents, and this talent would help them to excel in practical life,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 9th, 2017.
Police have been asked to keep a close watch on the surroundings of educational institutions to make the campuses drug-free.
The orders came from Punjab Higher Education Minister Syed Raza Ali Gillani and Punjab School Education Minister Rana Mashhood on Saturday during a meeting at the Directorate of Staff Development, where Punjab Education Foundation Managing Director Tariq Mahmood and representatives of School Education Department, Higher Education Department and police were also present.
The meeting expressed its commitment to save students from the menace of drugs so that they could continue their studies in a healthy environment. Students should be sensitised about the hazards of smoking and other harmful drugs, so that a feeling of disgust and hatred against drugs could be developed in the younger generation, the meeting discussed.
The provincial ministers said the government was committed to ensuring the educational institutions were free from drugs.
While reviewing different projects of school education, Rana Mashood said that by 2018, 20,000 schools would be converted to solar energy. The government, he added, would be able to achieve 100% enrolment targets by 2018.
Speaking at a prize distribution ceremony at Government Islamia Postgraduate College for Women, Gillani said that co-curricular activities helped develop intellectual ken of the students and also promoted self-confidence in them to show better performance in classrooms and playgrounds.
In his address, the minister observed that speech and essay writing competitions had proved useful in reinvigorating the abilities and talent of the students.
“These competitions are part of government’s commitment to help students grow confidently. It will help the students to exhibit their individual talents, and this talent would help them to excel in practical life,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 9th, 2017.