ADP 2015-16: Mosque maktabs to be converted to primary schools

PESHAWAR:

Chairing the third meeting to discuss development schemes under the Annual Development Programme 2015-16, Chief Minister Pervez Khattak directed all mosque schools be converted into regular primary schools. He added primary schools will, in future, be built on the basis of feasibility, not political sway.

Provincial ministers, the adviser to the CM on C&W, the chief secretary, additional chief secretary and other officers attended the meeting on Friday.

According to an official handout, ongoing and new plans for education, health, energy, science, finance and social welfare under the ADP were discussed.

The CM directed infrastructure schemes to be diverted to the local governments.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2015.