Minister of State for Capital Administration and Development Division Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry on Tuesday informed the Senate that the government was working on up-gradation of schools in the federal capital.

Replying to a calling attention notice of Col (retd) Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi, the minister said that the steps were being taken in the education sector under the Prime Minister’s Education Reforms Programme.

He said there was no issue of lapse of budget as the ministry had spent in excess of the allocated amount of Rs 802.38 million. The minister said that officially no day-care centers were functioning at public schools in the federal capital, however, many alternate options had been adopted by many schools to facilitate those teachers who come to schools with their infants. The school administrations privately managed such sort of issues to facilitate teachers, he added.

Dr Tariq said that 281 posts of grade 1 to 4 and 34 posts of BS-15 would also be advertised. Some employees, he said, had got stay orders from courts.

Earlier, Senator Tahir Mashhadi sought details of 3,000 posts lying vacant in federal government educational institutions, besides other issues being faced by them.