PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Minister Atif Khan said on Thursday that the government was promoting IT-based education in schools to gear up students for fulfilling contemporary requirements.
As part of such efforts, the minister said that the PTI-led government was establishing well resourced IT labs in all public sector schools in order to make students conversant with modern technology and to help them meet market’s demands.
Presiding over a meeting in the provincial capital, he directed the officials concerned to provide access to the common people for utilising these IT labs in schools by keeping them open through two shifts.
He said that no laxity should be exercised in this regard, and ordered that a compliance report be submitted.
The minister said that this was the era of Information Technology and no country could achieve socio-economic development without utilising modern technology. He added that it was in view of this fact that his government was providing IT labs to all the government-run schools in the province.
He said that the provincial government had increased the number of IT labs from 179 to 1340 during its tenure, adding that these labs would be established in the remaining institutions of the province.
He said the government was also promoting digital literacy by equipping around 500 schools with interactive boards in higher secondary schools. He added that the facility would be extended to 11 more schools during the current fiscal year.
Secretary Education Dr Shehzad Bangash, Special Secretary Qaiser Alam and the IT managing directors’ board also attended the meeting.