Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Monday said that the incumbent government was working sincerely to resolve issues facing teachers and had taken several measures for their welfare.

The president was talking to a delegation of Tanzeem-e-Asateza Pakistan. The delegation, headed by union president Prof Mian Muhammad Akram, called on the president at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad. Minister of State for Federal Education and Professional Training Muhammad Balighur Rehman and senior officials were also present at the meeting.

“Educational institutions play an important role in human resource and economic development of a country. It is the basic responsibility of teachers to also focus on character building of students along with imparting quality education,” he said.

Expressing his keen interest in promoting quality education across the country, the president hoped that teachers would continue playing their due role for proper training and education of new generation.

The president underlined that it was also the responsibility of teachers to play their part in controlling sectarian differences and parochialism in educational institutions.

The president called for benefiting from the experiences of other countries to further improve the state of education. “Policies of the government are in the right direction for improving the standard of education,” he said. “Urdu as an official language has been completely enforced at the Aiwan-e-Sadr,” he said.

The president noted with appreciation that the Ministry of Professional Education and Professional Training was endeavoring to formulate new educational curriculum in line with modern requirements in consultation with all stakeholders including the provinces.

The president hoped that soon uniform educational curriculum would be introduced for the whole country which would further nurture feelings of harmony, fraternity and brotherhood in the society for attaining collective development.