Education ministry gets control

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has taken the control of managing foreign scholarships from the ministry of interprovincial coordination and handed it over to the education ministry. Sources said students were facing hardships in acquiring foreign scholarships due to incompetence of the officials serving in the interprovincial ministry. The ministry was getting the scholarship affairs managed by a section officer who was deployed as an education officer, bringing failure to the scholarship programme. The government therefore decided to shift control and management of the scholarships to the ministry of education. According to an official of the ministry of interprovincial coordination, the ministry operates various departments, divisions and institutions under its umbrella. The inclusion of education was an addition in the ministry, he said, adding his office had requested the establishment division to shift control of the education and scholarship department to the education ministry. In addition to scholarships, control of the Pakistan Boys Scouts and Girls Guide Association has also been handed over to the education ministry.  

Published in The Express Tribune, October 25^th, 2018.