ISLAMABAD: Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Muhammad Baligh ur-Rehman on Friday informed the Senate that 12304 Non-formal Basic Education Community Schools (BECS) has been functioning across the country.
In a written reply, the ministers said that Directorate General of Basic Education Community School (BECS), Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training are the executing and operating authority of the said project.
He said that BECS partner NGOs are bound to perform duties as per MoU or agreement with BECS. The service charges allocated by BECS to partner NGO are Rs 500 per school per month.
He said that all Basic Education Community Schools (BECS) has been functioning across the country and there were no ghost schools in BECS. In this regard, Third Party Validation (TPV) was also conducted to check or verify the status of these schools in 2015 and no ghost schools were found.
