Islamabad, (Parliament Times) : The first meeting of the newly elected central executive body of the All Pakistan Private Schools and Colleges Association was held yesterday at the head office of the association in Islamabad. The meeting was presided over by Central President Dr. Malik Abrar Hussain, While Senior Vice President Rana Sohail Ahmad, Vice President Javed Iqbal Raja, Secretary General Ashraf Haraj, Zulfiqar Ali Siddiqui, Irfan Muzaffar Kayani, Malik Deen Muhammad Awan, Qasim Abbas, Asrar Bakhari, Muhammad Ibrahim, Malik Hafeezur Rehman, Malik Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Arif Advocate, Qari Tariq Mehmood, Antak Hussain, Syed Abid Shah, Sardar Gul Zubair Khan, Dr. Rukhsana Khan, Nagina Younis and Sadia Ishaq also participated in the meeting and expressed their views.
On this occasion, the meeting has demanded that there are more than two million and six million children out of school in the country, which is a big question mark on our education system. The government should take concrete steps to bring the out-of-school children to school. It was demanded in the meeting that the role of the private education sector is above all for the educational development and social and economic improvement of Pakistan. Therefore, taking into account the services of private educational institutions, the government should provide facilities to these schools. Provision of land for the construction of private school buildings, interest-free loans should be given, and laboratories and libraries should be provided in registered private educational institutions. It has been clarified in the meeting that undoubtedly, the private education sector is ready to cooperate with the government in every possible way, however, the state will also have to fulfill its responsibilities and take concrete steps to solve the problems of private educational institutions.
