Special teams to monitor schools across Punjab

Teams will ensure plantation drives

LAHORE: Special teams have been formed by the Punjab School Education Department (SED) to monitor security arrangements, enrolment targets and plantation drives at public and private schools.

The department issued a notification which gave orders to the chief executive officers of district education authorities of all 36 districts across the province.

Designated teams will make surprise visits to public and private schools. Officers will visit category A+ and category A schools and will review security arrangements. During the inspection, the schools’ enrolment targets will also be scrutinised as well as the progress on plantation drives.

According to the notification, Additional Secretary General Sajid Tirmizi will lead the team for Rawalpindi while Budget and Planning Additional Secretary Safina Siddique will lead the team for Lahore and Kasur. Additional Secretary Abdul Rehman will supervise Layyah and Khanewal and District Education Authority Additional Secretary Tariq Hameed Bhatti will take the lead for Gujrat.

Meanwhile, DPI Secondary Mumtaz Shah will oversee Faislabad and Toba Tek Singh, Additional DPI Secondary Mushtaq Siyal will supervise Dera Ghazi Khan, Director Monitoring Abdul Qayyum will overlook Khushab and Sargodha and Deputy Secretary Aftab Ahmed will manage Vehari and Pakpattan.

Budget and Planning Deputy Secretary Mukhtar Ahmed will supervise Rahim Yar Khan and Rajanpur, Administration Deputy Secretary Irtiza Naqvi and Deputy Secretary Secondary Shahid Qureshi will oversee Gujranwala.

Further, Deputy Secretary Asif Majeed will manage Jhelum and Chiniot, Deputy Secretary Elementary Mirza Ikramul Haq will oversee Sheikupura, Academic Deputy Secretary Muhammad Farooq will look after Sialkot and Narowal and General Deputy Secretary Mohsin Sohail will supervise Nankana.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 21^st, 2018.