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PESHAWAR, Jul 22 (APP):Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education, Faisal Khan Tarakai has directed the authorities of the Education Monitoring Authority (EMA) to focus on the provision of facilities, including the attendance of teachers, students and ongoing academic activities in schools.
He issued these directives while presiding over a review meeting on the Education Monitoring Authority here on Monday.
Besides, Special Secretary Elementary and Secondary Education Asfandyar Khattak, Additional Secretary Jahangir Azam and officials of the Education Monitoring Authority also attended the meeting.
He said that according to the data of the authority, policy level decisions are made for schools and students and the achievement of all important goals has been ensured due to the excellent performance of the monitoring authority.
The minister said that the monitoring of double shift schools programmes and complete details of the girls’ community schools and monthly visits to schools have also been entrusted to the authority.
He said that all the employees of the authority have worked very diligently in provision of furniture free textbooks to schools, details of enrolment campaign and vacancies, which is appreciable. However, keeping in view the requirements of future, measures will be taken to develop the authority on modern lines including equipping the employees of the authority with modern training and IT equipment.
The monitoring authority officials briefed the minister that the authority monitors a total of 34633 schools, including schools in the merged districts, 192141 teachers and 57522 non-teaching staff and 5840403.
The teams of the authority monitor schools from primary to higher secondary level, saying due to the best measures taken by the Education Monitoring Authority, the absenteeism of teachers has been reduced while the number of temporarily closed schools is also very less and the provision of water and other facilities in schools have also been identified for which the department has taken practical steps.
The minister appreciated the performance of the Education Monitoring Authority and assured that all the problems of the employees of the authority will be resolved.