High-achievers to be honoured at PM House

Islamabad

Claiming the enforcement of the PM’s Education Reforms Programme in the federal capital is delivering the goods, the premier’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, has congratulated the students, who secured top positions in the recent middle and eighth grade examinations conducted by the Federal Directorate of Education and said she would invite them to the PM House to honour them.

Maryam Nawaz oversees the PMERP, which was launched in the Islamabad Capital Territory in December 2015 to upgrade or put up buildings, computer labs, playgrounds and other facilities at government schools and colleges, besides providing them with buses. The FDE regulating ICT schools had announced the results of the centralised annual fifth and eighth grade examinations on March 31 showing a pass rate of over 90 per cent.

The students of Islamabad’s model schools and colleges and private educational institutions, and private candidates had sat the exams held in February.

In a message on Twitter, an online news and social networking service, Maryam Nawaz congratulated the top exam position holders.

She attributed the good exam results to the PMERP saying the reforms had begun to bear fruit.

“(There’s) a huge improvement in the exam results with implementation of PM Education Reforms Programme.”

The PM’s daughter said she would invite the high-achieving students to the PM for ‘shabash’ (commendation).

“The public sector (schools) students have beaten their counterparts in the private sector in grade 5 centralised exams,” she said, adding that the students of federal government schools had also shown excellent results in the middle standard exams.

enrolment: The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has enrolled 1.3 million under privileged children in primary schools and targets to enrol 1.6 million by June 2017.

This was stated by Minister of State and BISP Chairperson MNA Marvi Memon while launching a nationwide Waseela-i-Taleem (WeT) school enrolment campaign.

This is the second phase of enrolment drive with the BISP aiming to cement the success of the WeT during the phase.

Launched in October 2012 in five districts, the WeT is currently operational in 32 districts and will be extended to 50 districts by the end of June 2018.

During the launching ceremony, the BISP chairperson explained all of three stages involved in the registration camp.

First of all, screening of eligible children of beneficiaries is carried out. After that, awareness session on the importance of education and attendance compliance for getting benefit from BISP is conducted. Lastly, enrolment process of children is completed.

Marvi Memon said school enrolment registration camps would be set up in all 32 WeT districts across Pakistan and this phase will continue until all of 5 to 12 years beneficiary children are enrolled in primary schools.

She asked the WeT team to complete the enrolment process in all districts efficiently within the minimum time.