The government would develop the necessary infrastructure for promoting the extra curriculum activities and sports in the educational institutions for better character building of the students. The private schools operating in different areas of the federal capital are providing better educational opportunities but lack proper infrastructure for extra curriculum activities and sports.
These views were expressed by the Chairman Prime Ministers Task Force on Islamabad Faisal Sakhi Butt while addressing the Sports Day of Sheikh Zaid International Academy Chairman Prime Minister’s Task Force on Islamabad.
Faisal said that the Federal Capital lacks basic facilities even after the laps of more than 5 decades. He said that Task Force is working on addressing the real issues of the city and provision of quality civic services to the residents of which improvement of education is the priority area.
He said that the basic issues of provision of clean drinking water, waste management, sanitation, and cleanliness and those of the development of stalled sectors have not been addressed as well as the modern capital of the world also lacks the proper transport system. He said that Task Force was executing a progressive agenda to address these issues in collaboration with CDA and other relevant organizations. He said that the world has rapidly changed in the last few decades. Distances have shrunken, communication and information has become our lifestyle and all nations, cultures and economies have become interconnected and interdependent on each other.
The real challenge today is to change our way of thinking not just our systems, institutions or policies. We need the imagination to grasp the immense promise and challenge of the interconnected world we have created. He stressed the need of understanding the strange reality of Pakistan’s education system that is facing a serious form of digital divide. The chairman Task Force said the most serious challenge for our education system is to produce such students capable to use available tools and technologies.
“We are seeking suggestions and deliberating on the ways and means through which the standards of education in these government schools could be enhanced inline with the needs of the challenges of 21st century”, he maintained. He called upon the management of the private school systems to collaborate with the public sector for improving the quality of education in government run schools especially in the areas of human resource development through better teachers training mechanism.
Government to develop infrastructure for sports
