{"id":74241,"date":"2025-05-13T16:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=74241"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:53:23","slug":"education-top-priority-of-kp-government-says-cm-gandapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/education-top-priority-of-kp-government-says-cm-gandapur\/","title":{"rendered":"Education &#8216;top priority&#8217; of KP government, says CM Gandapur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/kp-cm-ali-amin-gandapur-launches-free-solar-panel-scheme\/\">Ali Amin Gandapur<\/a> announces education as \u201ctop priority\u201d for his government in the upcoming budget, according to state-run <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sindh-rangers-vacate-historic-radio-pakistan-building-after-eight-years\/\">Radio Pakistan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will allocate more resources toward the education sector,&#8221; Gandapur vows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresiding over a meeting in Peshawar, he directed measures to enhance teachers\u2019 capacity, ensure 100 per cent merit in new recruitments, and establish schools in rented buildings in areas where they are urgently needed,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>It was decided in the meeting that several initiatives will be taken to enhance the enrollment of the students in the Schools and a budget will be allocated for these initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGandapur expressed concern that in some districts, the rate of out-of-school children remains alarming, and the declaration of an education emergency is a necessary step to reduce this number and improve enrollment rates,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the previous two decades, students have gotten free books from the provincial government at the beginning of the school year in April. Two years ago, the government chose to supply just half of the needed books since the expenditures exceeded Rs10 billion, instructing school administrators to collect old books from pupils promoted to the next grade and fulfill the remaining book needs.<\/p>\n<p>This year, however, a difficult scenario has evolved in schools, since the textbook board claims to have printed all of the volumes ordered by the education department, despite student and teacher complaints about a book scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>The chief minister\u2019s concerns follow in the wake of the unexpected\u00a0textbook shortage\u00a0in the province which has disrupted classes, high dropout rates, and Pakistan\u2019s \u201clow\u201d ranking in the\u00a0District Education Performance Index Report 2020-23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Gandapur announces education as \u201ctop priority\u201d for his government in the upcoming budget, according to state-run Radio Pakistan. &#8220;We will allocate more resources toward the education sector,&#8221; Gandapur vows. \u201cPresiding over a meeting in Peshawar, he directed measures to enhance teachers\u2019 capacity, ensure 100 per cent merit in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":51398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,2],"tags":[3453,8989,221],"class_list":["post-74241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-pakistan","tag-ali-amin-gandapur","tag-kpk","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74243,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74241\/revisions\/74243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}