Govt making efforts for Special children: Zakia

(APP)-Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Begum Zakia Shahnawaz has said that the government is making all out efforts for the rehabilitation of special children. While talking to a delegation of special people in her office on Tuesday, she said that a committee has been formed on the directives of Chief Minister Punjab to facilitate special people and make efforts to improve things for them in society. The advisor said the Punjab government allocated special funds in the new fiscal year for the education of these children and the proposal of establishment of a degree college and school was also under consideration, stated a handout.(APP)

PEF Phase-7 of EVS scheme has launched

The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has launched 7th phase of Education Vouchers Scheme (EVS) and invited applications from private schools to provide free education to poor kids of Katchi Abadis and low income families. The PEF officials said on Monday that Katchi Abadis and urban settlements of the impoverished selected in Multan for this scheme included Bholay Shah, Bashir Abad, Ahmad Abad and Basti Maswana.
In Khanewal district, colony No 1, Marzipura colony No 3 and Abbas Nagar while Bhutta Pur and Batta Karim Abad were selected in Muzaffargarh district. Hashmi Wala locality, Basti Katchi, Bhutta Shadi Khan, Chak 9-WB and Chak 11-WB were selected in Vehari district under phase-7 of EVS scheme. While, The Health Department Jhang has established a District Polio Control Room (DPCR) to administer polio vaccine drops to those children who will remain unattended during 3-day anti-polio drive.—APP

Transfer Posting of EDO Education in Punjab

The Punjab School Education Department Has issued transfer/posting orders of EDOs Education and District Education Officers in the Punjab. These officers have been selected after interview and clearance of Departmental search committee. Mr. Shaukat Ali Sherwani DEO SE D.G. Khan transferred and posted as EDO Education D.G. Khan, Dr. Muhammad Javaid Muzaffar Iqbal EDO Education Mianwali transferred and posted as EDO Education Sial Kot, Ms. Tahir Pervin Chishti DEO (W-EE) Layyah transferred and posted as EDO Education Mianwali, Mr. Ghulam Nazik Shehzad Principal Govt. Higher Secondary School Mana Ahmadani transferred and posted as EDO Education Rahim Yar Khan, Rana Ghulam Nabi Senior Subject Specialist Govt. Higher Secondary School, Khan Bela transferred and posted as EDO Education Bahawalnagar, Mst: Fouzia Ejaz DEO SE Bahawalnagar transferred and posted as EDO Education Pakpattan whereas the services of Muhammad Alam Jafari present EDO Education Pakpattan has been placed at the disposal of School Education Department, Mr. Aizaz Ahmad posted as EDO Education Khanewal. It is expected that more transfer of officers.

Transfer Posting of DEOs in Punjab

The Punjab School Education Department Has issued transfer/posting orders of EDOs Education and District Education Officers in the Punjab. These officers have been selected after interview and clearance of Departmental search committee. Mr. Ali Ahmad Principal Govt. Higher Secondary School, Zahir Pir transferred and posted DEO Secondary Education Lodhran, Mr. Bashir Ahmad Ch: posted as DEO Male Elementary Bahawalpur, the services of Mr. Shaukat Ali Tahir DEO Secondary Education Vehari placed at the disposal of School Education Department and Rana Muhammad Shabbir DEO Male Elementary education Vehari transferred and posted as DEO Secondary Education Vehari, Ms. Misbah Tallat awaiting posting posted as DEO Women elementary Education Khanewal, the services of Rana Muhammad Akram Shahid DEO Secondary Education Khanewal placed at the disposal of School Education Department and Mr. Jamshed Iqbal Senior Headmaster Government High School Mandar transferred and posted as DEO Secondary Education Khanewal, Mr. Abdul Ghaffar Khan DEO Male Elementary Education Muzaffargarh transferred and posted as DEO Secondary Education D.G. Khan, Mr. Abdul Majeed Senior Headmaster District Sahiwal transferred and posted as DEO Male Elementary Education Rahim Yar Khan, Mr. Irshad Ahmad Principal, Government Higher Secondary School, Ghazi Ghat transferred and posted as DEO Secondary Education Rahim Yar Khan, Ms. Rukhsana Nighat Senior Subject Specialist Bhagatta Kallan transferred and posted as DEO Secondary Education Kasur. It is expected that more transfer of officer may be issued in this week. To see Orders Notification please click this.......Orders of DEOs

Revised Pay Scale Notification Punjab

Government of the Punjab has issued Notification of revised Pay scales for Government employees.
To see this Notification please click. Revised Pay Scales

Khosa lauds health dept teaching cadre

PUNJAB Chief Minister s Senior Advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa has said that the services of teaching cadre staff of Health Department regarding medical education are commendable.

The government will solve their problems with regard to regularisation and departmental promotion on priority basis, he said this during a meeting with a delegation of the Medical Teachers Association (MTA), Punjab, according to a handout here on Saturday.

Briefing the meeting, MTA Punjab General Secretary Dr Tahseen Riaz said that senior registrars of teaching cadre, assistant professors and associate professors were facing departmental delay in their promotion and service regularisation. He said that despite approval of summary by the chief minister and order of the high court, the matters had been lying pending due to which teaching staff of Health Department was perturbed. He demanded that Health Department be directed to ensure early implementation of the approved summary and the court order. Sirdar Zulfiqar Khosa said the government was serious in resolving the issues of doctors. He said the demands of the MTA were genuine and he would bring the demands to the notice of the Punjab chief minister.

Govt setting priorities for health,edu sectors: Khosa

Provincial Minister for Industries Sardar Dost Muhammad Khan Khosa said the Punjab government was setting its priorities for health and education sectors to provide latest facilities to the masses. Addressing the trustees of Faisalabad Development Trust (FDT) after inaugurating the Headquarters Office Building of the Trust in Commissioner Complex here, he said that Punjab was on its right direction for sustained development. The minister lauded the efforts of the FDT for execution of welfare projects in health and education sectors.

Divisional Commissioner Syed Tahir Hussain, chairman FDT Mian Muhammad Tayyab, vice chairman Shaiq Jawaid and chief of Industrial Police Liaison Committee (IPLC) Syed Omar Nazar Shah also addressed. MNA Abid Sher Ali, DCO Nasim Sadiq and FDT Trustees, Sheikh Hassan Munawar, Abid Kamal, Ahmed Shafi and Nazim Shahzad also attended the Meeting.

The minister said that the unemployment was the main issue in the country and said that the Punjab government was trying its optimum to resolve this issue. He asked the FDT Trustees and other Industrialists of Faisalabad to provide maximum employment opportunities to jobless people in their industrial units. He appreciated the steps of the FDT for the construction of houses to disabled families in Faisalabad, drastic steps in health and education sectors and plantation for greenery in Faisalabad and added that the other philanthropists should also pursue it.

He assured that the Punjab government would extend its full cooperation to FDT for implementation of welfare projects. He announced that the government would attach its top priority to the counseling by FDT. Commissioner Syed Tahir Hussain said that during the last year flood damages in Jhang and Chiniot districts, as much as 300 houses were constructed in the flood-hit areas with the cooperation of well-to-do people and FDT.

He elaborated that under this platform, a comprehensive and integrated programme for free supply of medicines and food to deserving patients in government run hospitals was being launched by the FDT while total educational expenses of deserving students belonging to four provinces, Azad Kashmir and other remote areas of the country will be borne by the FDT. Earlier, FDT chairman Mian Muhammad Tayyab ,in his welcome address.—APP

Promoted teachers felicitated

As many as 204 male and 125 female Secondary School teachers in BS-16 of general cadre have been promoted as headmasters and headmistresses in BS-17.
The Punjab Education Department has issued notification in this regard. Six headmasters - Abdul Majeed, Shakir Ali, Inamul Haq, Sanaullah Abid, Muhammad Ashraf and Shamsul Haq - and four headmistresses - Shaheen Sheerin, Hasina Baqar, Ghazala Faraz Khan and Najma Sultana - were congratulation over their promotion at Nankana Sahib government schools.
The Headmasters Association and Senior Staff Association jointly congratulated and gave warm welcome to the upgraded teachers in the district.

Punjab government fails to adjust promoted college teachers

The Punjab government s failure to adjust 165 female college teachers after their promotion/ selection as assistant professor, despite a lapse of a couple of months, has been irking the teachers and their family members.
Earlier, the Punjab Higher Education Department had posted hundreds of teachers, both male and female, after their promotion/ selection as assistant professor (BS-18) from Lecturer (BS-17), but many female teachers refused to join and got extension on the pretext that the new place of their posting was not suitable for them. Subsequently, a summary was moved by the department to the Chief Minister s Secretariat, seeking his approval to adjust/post these teachers after conversion and down-gradation of posts, etc.

Sources privy to the developments said that the summary was approved by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif last month but the issue has not yet been resolved. They said the Higher Education Department, in many of the cases, had recommended shifting of posts to adjust the female teachers but the same was tuned down by the Finance Department on the pretext the CM had not approved the same.

The sources said if the government failed to address the issue during the ongoing summer vacation, a large number of colleges of the province would be without teaching faculty, hampering academic activities and causing academic loss to students.

Talking to The News, a number of teachers awaiting postings said the delay was multiplying their troubles as, despite approval of the CM, the teachers were uncertain about their future. They demanded the chief minister take notice of the delay and provide relief to them so that they might resume their duties without any problem. The teachers seeking anonymity said many of the female teachers, after promotion to/ selection in the next grade, were transferred from their previous colleges to far away areas, which did not suit them according to the prevailing socio-economic circumstance.

It is pertinent to mention that the CM had formed a three-member committee comprising Punjab Higher Education secretary Haseeb Athar, provincial Minister for Education Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman and Punjab Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan which had recommended adjustment of female teachers as one-time consideration keeping in view their problems.

A Higher Education Department official, seeking anonymity, said the department had prepared its reply over objection of the Finance Department, and expected that the issue would be resolved soon. However, he added, the teachers were also responsible for their problems. Being government servants, they should go wherever they are sent, he maintained.

When contacted, Higher Education secretary Haseeb Athar said posting of teachers was a regular issue and the department had so far posted around 1,100 teachers after promotion in the ongoing stint. He said the problem surfaces each time a faculty member shows reluctance to be posted as per directions of the department. He, however, claimed that the issue related to posting of the female teachers would be solved within a week.The news.

New Revised Pay Scales Notification issued.

Government of Pakistan has issued revised Pay scale and Pension Notification vide No. F.1(5)2011-419 dated 4.7.2011. To see this notification please click this.....Revised Pay Scales Notification

Posts of VCs: PhDs from abroad can be selected, says LHC

A student who spends five years in learning process of universities of Harvard, Stanford, John Hopkins, NYU, University of Southern California, Cambridge University, University of Virginia and many such seats of learning compete on merit with millions of students getting education from all over the world in such universities,” says an LHC single bench detailed order through which petitions questioning the process of VCs’ appointments and eligibility of search committee private members
were dismissed on June 24 last.
Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh in his verdict on the petitions observed that the PhDs of such universities needed to be given due recognition and if the same was denied to them it would be an act of discrimination against the highly-qualified persons.
He said the academic standards of these universities had been surveyed for determining their ranking the world over and this ranking had been given due recognition in the academic and education spheres. No illegality could be found to be attributable upon giving due recognition to the qualification of such foreign universities, he said.
“It is also a settled principle of law as recognised by the superior courts of Pakistan that where there is a reasonable classification made in a particular matter, this step is itself considered as sufficient in negating the allegations of discrimination,” the judge said and added that the arguments of the petitioners’ counsel that by allowing five additional
marks to an advanced learning undergone by PhD degree holders from top ranking 500 universities of the world was an act of discrimination had no legal force or factual strength and was repelled.
The counsel also challenged the evaluation criteria determined by members of the search committee but the judge rejected the argument as not sustainable in the eye of law.
The petitioners also questioned the eligibility of three private members of the search committee on the basis of the fact that they were not holders of PhD degrees. The three members are Syed Babar Ali, Sartaj Aziz and Let-Gen Muhammad Akram Khan (retired).
However, the judge rejected this argument as well, observing that the valuable services rendered by these private members of the committee in heading and successfully running the top universities of the country needed to be duly acknowledged.
Justice Sheikh observed that the petitioners had failed to attribute any mala fides to these members of the search committee.
The judge also reproduced antecedents of these three members in his order.
The judge held: “The process initiated, conducted and to be finalised for filling the vacancies in the posts of vice chancellors of the six universities in question does not suffer from any illegality, is on the face of it transparent and is being supervised by a search committee comprising well-known educationists of the country which is working under the guidelines of higher education commission and this court does not find any legal flaw in the course of being adopted by the committee for the purpose.
“No case for interference having been made by the petitioners in the matter, therefore, the instant writ petitions are accordingly dismissed,” the verdict said.
Dr Hassan Amir Shah, Dr Shaukat Ali, Dr Yousaf Hayat Khan, Dr Maqbool Hussain and Dr Bushra Khan filed the petitions. They were not shortlisted for interview by the authorities for, what the government argued before the court, felling lower in the merit list finalised by search committee.
Advocate Anwar Kamal addressed arguments in all petitions. An additional advocate-general, Muhammad Hanif Khatana defended the Punjab government. Higher Education Department Additional Secretary Ms Shama Zia and Deputy Secretary Ghulam Sarwar also appeared in the case.

Muzaffargarh suffers school dropout dilemma

A seminar was on Saturday held to spread awareness about rights of children and highlight their problems. 
They said that marriage in tender age, poverty, education, food, lack of health facilities and unfavourable social situations are main problems of children. So, they said, the government and civil society have to work together to solve these problems. Former EDO Malik Kher Muhammad Budh said in the district 250,000 children are not going to school sent going to school whereas dropout ratio of children from schools is 50pc. He said, “Children are our precious investment. To make their future safe, it is very necessary to implement compulsory education and Labour Laws.” World Vision provincial coordinator Farzana Parveen said that that her organization was doing work for the rehabilitation of flood victims. Mian Noor Ahmad urged the other social organisations to start programmes for the welfare of children. District sports officer Asghar khan Babar suggested that healthy activities should be organised for children. He also announced a grant of 25,000 from district government.

Govt fails to adjust promoted college teachers

The Punjab government s failure to adjust 165 female college teachers after their promotion/ selection as assistant professor, despite a lapse of a couple of months, has been irking the teachers and their family members.

Earlier, the Punjab Higher Education Department had posted hundreds of teachers, both male and female, after their promotion/ selection as assistant professor (BS-18) from Lecturer (BS-17), but many female teachers refused to join and got extension on the pretext that the new place of their posting was not suitable for them. Subsequently, a summary was moved by the department to the Chief Minister s Secretariat, seeking his approval to adjust/post these teachers after conversion and down-gradation of posts, etc.

Sources privy to the developments said that the summary was approved by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif last month but the issue has not yet been resolved. They said the Higher Education Department, in many of the cases, had recommended shifting of posts to adjust the female teachers but the same was tuned down by the Finance Department on the pretext the CM had not approved the same.

The sources said if the government failed to address the issue during the ongoing summer vacation, a large number of colleges of the province would be without teaching faculty, hampering academic activities and causing academic loss to students.

Talking to The News, a number of teachers awaiting postings said the delay was multiplying their troubles as, despite approval of the CM, the teachers were uncertain about their future. They demanded the chief minister take notice of the delay and provide relief to them so that they might resume their duties without any problem. The teachers seeking anonymity said many of the female teachers, after promotion to/ selection in the next grade, were transferred from their previous colleges to far away areas, which did not suit them according to the prevailing socio-economic circumstance.

It is pertinent to mention that the CM had formed a three-member committee comprising Punjab Higher Education secretary Haseeb Athar, provincial Minister for Education Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman and Punjab Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan which had recommended adjustment of female teachers as one-time consideration keeping in view their problems.

A Higher Education Department official, seeking anonymity, said the department had prepared its reply over objection of the Finance Department, and expected that the issue would be resolved soon. However, he added, the teachers were also responsible for their problems. Being government servants, they should go wherever they are sent, he maintained.

When contacted, Higher Education secretary Haseeb Athar said posting of teachers was a regular issue and the department had so far posted around 1,100 teachers after promotion in the ongoing stint. He said the problem surfaces each time a faculty member shows reluctance to be posted as per directions of the department. He, however, claimed that the issue related to posting of the female teachers would be solved within a week. 

Education needs political will

THE recent allocations for education in the budget for 2011-2012 of Sindh (Rs26.80 billion) and Punjab (Rs64 billion) have shown an increase in the education sector. It shows a rise of 15 per cent in Sindh.
However, the fact is that education, despite being on the top priority of each government, practically has not been seen in deprived and wanted areas. Progress is being made but at snail’s pace. So we remain in the position of mark time.
This status quo, though, has never been compromised by the people at the helm of affairs and that is why education, despite its slow progress, always remains a top priority. As a vibrant nation, we are alive to a low literacy rate in the country.
In every subsequent annual budget, therefore, an increase in the allocation of education sector is reflected.
Unfortunately, owing to the telling factors from time to time in the country, the education budget could seldom be utilised in full.
The other factor is that poverty in the country has continued unabated over many decades, therefore the parents, mostly illiterate ones, prefer their children to start doing menial jobs instead of sending them to schools.
Education for all is good, but now the time has come for schools to disseminate quality education. Media and computer in unison have immensely given a great boost to information and knowledge, now easily accessible to many in the country.
In the teaching and learning process new thoughts, approaches and attitudes are being developed rapidly every now and then. Schools can occupy an important place, leading to the spontaneous growth and prosperity of a country if curriculum, textbooks and teaching methodologies are up to date.
Quality schooling for the young ones is essential to create an understanding of the country’s real problems, filtering the process for betterment.
Different segments of society are coming forward in the propagation of education, and some of the chains of reputed educational organisations have set a praiseworthy standard for quality education.
It is pertinent that the HEC, provincial education departments, universities and boards should monitor education activities in the country with the latest techniques and tools. Education needs priority at all times.

100pc enrolment after vacation:Punjab Eduction minister

PUNJAB Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman has claimed that 80 percent target of primary enrolment campaign has been achieved while the rest will be achieved after summer vacation.

He was talking to a thee-member delegation, led by acting British High Commissioner Peter Tibber, which called on the minister regarding Education Sector Reforms Programme. Alistair King and Mr Mackenzi were other members of the delegation.

The education minister and schools secretary informed the delegation about the reforms being made in the education sector. Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman said Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif had declared education and health his top priority.

He said important steps had been taken for improvement of education sector in the province during the last three years which included setting up of computer labs, recruitment of teachers on merit, cash prizes and organizing ceremonies in honour of high achievers, provision of quality education to the poor students in Daanish Schools, establishment of Punjab Educational Endowment Fund, Model Schools and imparting training to the teachers.

The delegation was also informed that political interference had been eliminated in education sector and appointments on all administrative posts had been made on merit through search committees in education department.

The delegation was also told that educational budget was also being spent in a transparent manner. 

SSC Result will be announced on 21 July BISE Lahore

THE Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Lahore, will announce the results of matriculation annual examinations 2011 on July 21. BISE controller of exams Prof Manzur ul Hassan Niazi said class 10 result would be announced on July 21 while result of class 9 would be announced on August 4.

Lifting of Ban in Education Department

To download the notification please click      Lifting of Ban

New Deputy District Education Officer Male Kot Addu

Mr. Muhammad Yashin Chishti SSS Government College for Elementary Teachers Training Kot Addu has been transferred and posted as Deputy District Education Officer (Male) Tehsil Kot Aduu. He has assumed his office and start official work as Deputy District Education Officer. This post was vacated by Mr. Siraj who has been promoted in BS-19 and posted in Mithan Kot District Rajan Pur.

INTERVIEW OF DEOS/EDOS EDUCATION IN EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

The interview for selection of District Education Officers (Male and Female) as well as EDOs (Education) for D.G. Khan, Bahawalpur and Multan Division will be held on 24.6.2011 in Committee Room of School Education Department Lahore. In this connection letters to the concerned EDOs for intimation to the selected candidates have been issued. The candidates have been asked to appear for interview along with relevant original record / certificates on the date and venue at 9.00 am. To see the list of selected candidates who will appear for interview for post of DEOs and EDOs Education is available. Please Click List for interview of DEOs/EDOs Eduction for D.G.Khan, Bahawal Pur and Multan Division.

   

Posting Transfer in Education Department Muzaffaregarh

Ms. Mah Jabeen Senior Headmistress Government Girls High School Shehr Sultan (Muzaffargarth) has been transferred and posted as Deputy District Education Officer (W-EE) Tehsil Muzaffargarh. She has assumed the charge and started the official work.

Mr. Atta-ur-Rahman Senior Headmaster, Government High School, Yarey Wala has been retired after completion 60 years of age from Government Service on June the 1st 2011. Mr. Mureed Hussain Khan awaiting posting has been posted as Senior Headmaster in the same school and took over the charge of the school from 2.6.2011.

  

Flood-affected school reopens

The Children’s Global Network Pakistan (Guarantee) Limited in collaboration with the Muzaffargarh district government is organising a ceremony to inaugurate flood-affected school and also to distribute school bags at Government Primary School Jaal Wala, Markaz Basira here. 
Lahore Elementary Provincial Education Department DPI Islam Siddique will be the chief guest on the occasion. The school bags being distributed contain consumable stationery items for children for various grade levels from Kindergarten to Grade V whose bags have been washed away in the flood. 
Other guests included, Executive District Officer (Education) Muzaffargarh Malik Masood Nadeem, District Monitoring Officer Mr Tariq, Ms Mehnaz Aziz Chief Executive Children’s Global Network Pakistan (Guarantee) Limited, senior officials of the district education department Muzaffargarh, members of School Councils, school children and their parents.

Merit List of EDOs in Punjab

A merit list for posting of EDO and DEOs in Punjab has been issued. The selected candidates will be posted as EDO or DEO in different district of Punjab. To see the list please click the link below

Merit list of EDOs in Punjab

Punjab govt creates 35 Saraiki lecturer posts

the Punjab government has created 35 posts of lectures in the subject of Saraiki in three divisions of south Punjab, it is learnt.

The subject will be introduced at Higher Secondary School (Intermediate) level from the next academic session and initially 35 colleges of three divisions, namely Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan, will offer the new subject.

Sources privy to the development said the subject of Saraiki was earlier offered at graduation level only and that too in only two colleges of Multan districts while at the post-graduation level, it was being offered at the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, and the Islamia University, Bahawalpur (IUB), etc. They said the move was aimed at addressing grievances of southern belt of Punjab where the demand for a separate province was becoming intense with the passage of time. The demand for a separate province was also highlighted by many parliamentarians in the Punjab Assembly recently.

The elected representatives have been voicing their concerns that the Saraiki belt has not received the attention it deserved, especially in terms of development projects. The incumbent Punjab government claims to give priority to the south Punjab and the fresh move was being seen a step in this direction.

It is also pertinent to mention here that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and many other political stalwarts, including those from Punjab ruling hierarchy, belong to southern districts of the province.

The colleges in DG Khan where the seats for Saraiki lecturers have been created are Govt Degree College for Boys, Block-17, DG Khan, Govt Girls Degree College, Model Town, DG Khan, and Govt College for Boys, Taunsa Sharif, DG Khan. The colleges of Bahawalpur are Govt Post Graduate College, Baghdad Road, Govt Degree College (Women), Satellite Town, and Govt Degree College (W), Dubai Mahal Road.

The colleges of Multan district are Govt Willayat Hussain Islamia Degree College, Govt Alamdar Hussain Islamia Degree College, Govt Millat Degree College, Govt College of Science, Govt College Civil Lines, Govt College (W) Mumtazabad, Govt Degree College (W) Shah Rukn-e-Alam, Govt Degree College (W) Chungi No 14, Govt Degree College (W) Chungi No 6, Govt Degree College (W) Masoom Shah Road, Govt Zainab Degree College (W) and Govt Degree College, Shujabad. The colleges of Vihari district are Govt Post Graduate College and Govt Post Graduate College for Women while those of Khanewal district are the Govt Degree College and Govt College for Women. The selected colleges of district Lodhran are Govt Degree College and Govt Degree College for Women while others include Govt Degree College and Govt Degree College for Women (Rajanpur), Govt Degree College and Govt Degree College for Women (Layyah), Govt Post Graduate College and Govt Post Graduate College for Women (Muzaffargarh), Govt Post Graduate College and Govt Post Graduate College (Bahawalnagar). The college of Rahimyar Khan district are Govt Post Graduate College, Kanpur, Govt Kh Farid College and Govt College for Women.

Professors and Lecturer Association holds meeting in Muzaffargarh

 The Punjab Professors and Lecturer Association (PPLA) convened a meeting on Monday under the chair of its Divisional President Prof Muhammad Bakhsh.
During the meeting, the participants condemned the introduction new procedure for practical examinations. They warned the DG Khan Board Intermediate and Secondary education chairman to revert back to the old procedure otherwise they would launch a protest and would compel to go on strike.
All members of PPLA and members of its executive council attended the meeting.
OFFICE ASSUMED: Furqan Abbas has assumed his office as District Information Officer Muzaffargarh here on Monday. Earlier, he was working as Additional Directorate General of Southern Punjab before this posting.

Final list of Teachers selected for incentive on Primary, Middle and Secondary level for 2011

A list of all teachers who have been selected for incentive in different categories i.e. Primary, Middle and Secondary level for 2011 in District Muzaffargarh have been issued by EDO Education Muzaffargarh. In this  connection the teachers have been asked to inform the office in case of any error or mistake. To see the list please visit the following link:-
List of Incentive for Primary, Middle & Secondary Teachers

Mian Abdul Razzaq Headmaster Government High School Cheena retired

 Mian Abdul Razzaq Headmaster is addressing to staff of Govt. High School Cheena on his retirement

Mian Abdul Razzaq Headmaster Government High School, Cheena Tehsil Muzaffargarh on attaining the age of 60 years has been retired from Government service since 31.5.2011. In this regard a farewell party in the honour of Mian Abdul Razzaq Headmaster and Mr. Mureed Hussain SST who was also retied  was arranged by the staff of Govt. High School Cheena. All the staff members paid their best wishes for their retired life and attributed his Government service life. Mian Abdul Razzaq belongs to Ali Pur city and he remained posted as SST at Government High School, Ali Pur since long. On his retirement we pray for his success.

  

8 schools retrieved from illegal occupants in Muzaffargarh

The district administration as per instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif Monday conducted a crackdown on illegal occupants of state land.

A team headed by District Coordination Officer Tahir Khurshid Ch comprising Assistant Commissioner Shafiq Abbas, Tehsildar Aamer Ch, TMA staff and police conducted raids at Kotadu and Muzaffargarh sub-divisions. Sources said eight girls primary schools of Pipli, Mehranabad, Ishaq Wah, Bahar Shah, Thaheem Wali Chak Alam Shah, Pirwah and Jamani Khakhi were retrieved from influential people who had turned these schools into cattle farms. Sources said 304 kanal land of forest department Kotadu, 27 kanal of livestock, 51 kanal of Ehsanpur seed farm, 814 kanal of Punjnad headwork, 5193 kanal of Muzaffargarh canal, 2237 of Kotadu and 56,428 kanal of Forest department Muzaffargarh got vacated from the occupants. DCO Tahir Khurshid said it was a great success of the administration to retrieve state land primary schools.

Notification of 20% selected Primary Schools for performance Allowance 2011

A notification for 20% Primary Schools (Male & Female) of District Muzaffargarh has been issued by EDO Education Muzaffargarh . To see the list of 93 selected  Primary schools please click this link................>>>>> Notified List of 20% Primary Schools District Muzaffargarh 2011

Notification of 20% selected Middle Schools for performance Allowance 2011

A notification for 20% Middle Schools (Male & Female) of District Muzaffargarh has been issued by EDO Education Muzaffargarh . To see the list of 62 selected schools please click this link................>>>>> Notified List of 20% Middle Schools District Muzaffargarh 2011

Incentive 2011 for Middle and Primary schools District Muzaffargarh

A tentative list of Primary and Middle Schools selected for invective on their best performance has been released by EDO Education Muzaffargarh, The following middle schools have been selected for incentive. GHS Ali Wali GES Ali Pur GGES Ali Pur GHS Ali Pur GHS Khair Pur sadat GES Ghalwan GGES Thaheem Wala GHS Bara GHS Beelay Wala GHS Muhamamd Wali GGES Hamzy Wali GHS Jhuggi Wala GES Sithari GHS Bairbund GES Laskani Wala GHS Jatoi GGES Shabir Abad GHS KOT ADU-1 GHSS MEHMOD KOT GES DHARAM PUR GGES 518/TDA GES MUBARAK WALA GES ABDUL TAWAB GES TIBI NIZAM GGES ALMANI WALA GGES NAWAN BUDH GGHS EHSAN PUR GES 638/TDA GES MILLAT KOT ADU GES CHAN WALA GES DOST ALI WALA GHSS GHAZI GHAT GHS KOHAWAR GHS D.D.PANNAH GHS SINAWAN GGES DOUBLE SHIFT GHS GURMANI GHS BUDH GGES S. SHAHID   GHS BRAHIM WALI GES KHANGARH GHS KARAM DAD GHS DRIGH GES NACHING GES BARA SADAT GGHS BASIRA GES WESANDY WALI GES PRACTISING MZG GGES DRIGH GES ALUDY WALI GHS BASTI MAHARAN GGHS MC M. GARH GES THATHA QURESHI GHS BANGUL WALI GHS KHAN GARH GHSS ROHILLAN WALI GGHS Khan Garh GES PACKA GHALWAN GES DIN PUR GES BASTI GAZRAN GHS SHARIF CHAJRA GES CHOUHAR PUR GGES MURAD ABAD

And the Primary schools list for incentive is as under

     GES TIBBI ARAIN GHS MARRIAN GPS BAZ WALA GPS KARACH ALA GES GAGRY WALI GGPS TEACHER COLONY GGES THAHEEM WALA GGES BAZ WALA GGES KHAIR PUR GPS MEERANI GPS GHAGHRI GPS MALIK ARAIN GES SITHARI GPS NO-1 JATOI GPS ASGHAR WALA GES JEHAN PUR GHS MUHAMMAD WALI GES KANDH SHARIF GPS BAKAINI GPS BHEELA GGES HAMZY WALI GES LASKANI WALA GGPS SHAHER SULTAN-1 GPS ALLAH BUKHSH GPS SHAHBAZ PUR GHS HAMZY WALI GHS DAMMER WALA GPS MASSO WALA GPS ALI WALI GES AJAB WALA GPS SABZOJAT GPS CHAK GODR GES WAN PITTAFI GPS RUG GPS HANIF ABAD GPS BASHIR SINAWAN GES MODEL KHANGARH GES KAMAL PUR GPS BASTI AWAN GES CHOHAR PUR GGCMS MONDKA GHS BASTI MAHARAN GES DIN PUR GES TALIRI GGCMS KHURSHID ABAD GGPS ZUBAIR ABAD GGES BHUTTA PUR GPS RANG PUR CENTER GGES LANGAR SRAI GHS DEWALA GHS SHARIF SHAJRA GPS BODLA SANDILA GES HASSAN PUR TRND GES MEHER PUR GPS CHOWHAN WALA GPS KHULANG JADED
To view files please the click...........>Incentive Primary & Middle Schools
  

Summer Vacations 2911 by Punjab Schools Education Department

According to Government of Punjab, School Education Department, the summer vacations will be started from 1,6,2011 ti 14,8,2011. See the Notification ............of Summer Vacation


  

Summer Camp Notification 2011

To see th summer camp notification please click.................Summer Camp Notification 2011 
  

Incentive Form for 2011

Incentive form fro all selected Primary Middle and High Schools (M&F) is available. If you want to download it please click.........Incentive Form

Summer Camp during Summer vacations.

As reported by the sources, no summer vacation will be observed in Education Department in Muzaffargarh.. Summer Camp will be set up from 7 am to 10.30 am during the summer priod i.e. June to 14th August 2011.

Transfer Posting in Education Department

Mr. Irshad Ahmad Tarar ex-EDO Literacy Muzaffargarh has been posted as Principal Government Higher Secondary School, Chowk Sarwar Shaheed, Rana Muhammad Wakeel ex-Deputy District Education Officer (M) Tehsil Ali Pur has been promoted in BS-19 and posted as Principal Government Higher Secondary School, Shehr Sultan, Abdul Aziz Nadir ex- EDO Literacy Layyah adjusted as Senior Headmaster Government High School, Taunsa Barrage Kot Adu, Makhdoom Mujahid Hussain ex-EDO Education Rajan Pur (awaiting posting) has been posted as Principal Government Higher Secondary School, Sinawan, Rana Munawar Abbas Deputy District Education Officer (HQ) Rajan Pur as Senior Headmaster Government High School, Talkot Muzaffargarh, Ch: Tariq Mahmood Deputy District Education Officer (M)  Tehsil Hafiz Abad posted as Senior Headmaster, Govt. High School, Rang Pur and Mr. Riaz Qamar Headmaster Govt. High School, Lasoori transferred as Headmaster Govt. High School, Badley Wala, Mr. Altaf-ur-Rahman Headmaster (awaiting posting) adjusted as Headmaster Government High School, Dost Ali Wala.. Nasreen Gul and Ms. Shahnaz Mulazim Hussain has also been transferred and posted as Headmistress Government Girls High School Chowk Karam Dad Qureshi and Government Girls High School, Mian Wala respectively.

  

NCHD to impart education to 1100 rural women

 

Staff Reporter

National Commission for National Development will educate 1100 villager women in different centres set up in district Muzaffargarh. While talking to APP, General Manager Malik Kher Muhammad disclosed that the organisation had imparted basic education to 76,000 women. He said women education was vital to put the country on road to progress and prosperity. Local Community leader Muhammad Ismail lamented that the education among women was ignored deliberately and its results was backwardness.

Shehzad Khalid, a senior admin officer Parco inaugurated the “Taaleem-e-Balghan” set up in Basti Almani. Shehzad Khalid said women’s education was necessary for national progress. Earlier,a public dialogue organised by the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) urged to raise the critical need to invest time, energy, thought and funding in girls’ and women’s education especially as it is directly linked with the overall progress of the nation. The seminar was organised to mark Global Action Week (GAW) 2011 on Education for All (EFA). The seminar highlighted that 73% of boys’ enrolment as compared to only 57% of girls in Pakistan and even when having enrolled, girls are less likely to complete primary education, due to poverty, traditions and lack of protection. 

Speakers at the seminar called on government and all stakeholders in the education sector to pay critical attention to issues concerning girls’ education in the country. Under Article 25 - A, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, “education is a fundamental right for children 5-16 years, requiring urgent actions for access, equity and equality.” A crucial factor in this regard is mother’s literacy rate, which helps in determining children’s education and health. In Pakistan (rural), only one in three women are literate, according to Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2010 which was conducted in 32 rural districts of Pakistan. UNESCO representative Tahira stated “investment in girls’ education is possibly the best investment that can be made in the developing world.” She regretted that “54% Pakistanis are living in extreme poverty and unless integrated poverty reduction plan is not adopted we cannot develop as an educated state.”

A report by daily Pakistan Observer dated 22.5.2011

22-High & Higher Secondary Schools have been approved for incentive or best school package.

The District Committee constituted for selection of best performance high schools in the District Muzaffargarh have approved 22-High Schools for award of incentive Package. These school have been selected on their SSC Result 2010, enrollment and retention of students. In case of any error or omission or correction, DEO SE or EDO Education Muzaffargarh office can be contacted. Please click the following link to see the list of schools or download .......>.Approved list of high schools for incentive in District Muzaffargarh  
The school names are given below:-
GHS Bara GHSS Mehmod Kot GHS Kohawar GHS Haji Shah GHS D.D.Pannah GHS Jhuggi Wala GHSS Gujrat GHS Muzaffargarh GHS Mir Hazar GHSS Rohillan Wali GHS Sultan Pur GHS Bely Wala GHS Ali Pur GHS Basti Drigh GHS Sheikh Umer GHS Gurmani GHS Kot Adu GHS Jatoi GGHS Khan Garh GHSS Shah Jamal GGHS M. Kot City GGHSS Rohillan Wali  

  

Government College Muzaffargarh

Can you recognize this picture? No, ohooo, Can you believe that this snap is Government College Muzaffargarh main gate. But the problem is here that no College sign board is seen. This is really Government College Muzaffargarh. If you don't believe then you can yourself visit this spot. 

  

Punjab Teachers Union Election in Markaz Muzaffargarh

A group photo after winning the Election of Punjab Teachers Union Markaz Muaffargarh. In center Chaudhry Muhammad Khalid newly elected president of Markaz Muzaffargrh with his companion. 

   

After the floods, new schools provide normalcy and opportunities for communities in Pakistan

CHILDREN IN THE SMALL VILLAGE OF MULLAN WALLA, IN FLOOD-AFFECTED MUZAFFARGARH DISTRICT, WERE ALL SMILES WHEN THEY STARTED CLASS IN A RECENTLY-OPENED UNICEF-SUPPORTED SCHOOL.

VIDEO: 19 May 2011 - UNICEF correspondent Chris Niles reports on a UNICEF-supported school opening in the aftermath of last year's floods in Pakistan. Watch in RealPlayer

The new three-classroom primary school in the province of Southern Punjab is bright, modern and airy – quite a difference from their old school, which was destroyed in last summer’s devastating floods. Each classroom is well-equipped with desks, chairs and a blackboard, along with learning materials like books, notebooks and learning games.

“We have been provided with a wonderful school, furniture and teaching materials,” says Headmaster Mukhtar Ahmad, who cannot speak highly enough of the new school. “This is something for us to rejoice. It is a lifetime reward for me that children of this area and village receive education and this will make me very happy."

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UNICEF Representative in Pakistan Dan Rohrmann talks to children attending the new semi-permanent school built in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan.

The school is one of six prototype Transitional School Structures, built to varying designs that are being set up in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan provinces. UNICEF is working with the Government of Pakistan, authorities and partners to select the most appropriate models for each one. The schools will then be rolled out in larger numbers.

Transition in recovery

The temporary schools represent a significant move from the emergency response phase of the flood disaster towards early recovery, and are a key component of the UN ‘Delivering as One’ programme.

The floods that hit Pakistan last July and September took a terrible toll on the country, affecting almost 20 million people. Children’s education was badly hit, with more than 10,000 schools damaged. Millions of families were displaced from their houses, seeking refuge in tent camps far from home.

There, UNICEF-supported Temporary Learning Centres, or tent classrooms, were set up, which enabled more than 260,000 children to continue their education, and in many cases attend school for the first time. In addition, UNICEF and partners distributed school supplies to more than half a million children.

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The UNICEF-supported primary school in Muzaffargarh is a child-friendly learning environment that is well-equipped with educational supplies.

With almost all displaced people having left camps and returned to their areas or origin, the emphasis is now on replacing tent schools with more permanent classroom solutions.

‘Learning critical’

UNICEF Representative in Pakistan Dan Rohrmann, who opened the latest school, says it is critical that learning continues during humanitarian responses, “in order to create some normalcy for children during times of crisis.”

“Even more important is that they can continue with more formal learning and help fulfil the fundamental right of all children to a quality education,” he explains. “The Transitional School Structures are quick to build and relatively inexpensive.”

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Children at the new UNICEF-supported primary school in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan. Six semi-permanent schools have been built in flood-affected provinces so far.

So far 314 children are attending classes at the new school, up from 121 students before the floods. A further 45 are getting set to enrol. Many of the new students are girls who are being exposed to learning for the first time.

Right to education

The schools are also an important community resource. “Apart from their use in general education, schools offer a convergence point for a whole range of community engagement,” says Mr. Rohrmann. “They are essentially a hub for local development and wellbeing, and represent education’s central place in the community.”

These include providing a venue for mothers to have their children screened for malnutrition, and for children to learn the importance of good hygiene. Construction of the Transitional School Structures is supported by Australian Agency for International Development, the Government of Italy, and the OPEC Fund for International Development.

Courtesy by Unicef.org