ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Muhammad Baligh-ur-Rehman has been ordered by the prime minister Saturday to take care of finance minister’s parliamentary affairs.
Baligh-ur-Rehman has been advised to prepare a reply for finance minister in National Assembly and Senate, Geo News reported.
Speaking to the news channel, the minister accepted that he has been given responsibilities, adding that he has been ordered to take care of finance minister’s parliamentary affairs.
The minister on the launching of the UNESCO education monitoring summary 2017-18 under the theme of ‘Accountability in Education’ said that Pakistan worked actively on every SDG set by United Nations and was gradually overcoming the challenges.
He said Pakistan has increased the fiscal space for the education sector and currently spending 2.6 per cent of its GDP on education.
He also said that the accountability in the education sector could be achieved through strengthening democracy in the developing countries.
He said from primary to higher education, federal and provincial governments have increased budgetary allocations for the education sector.
According to the report, only 55 per cent countries in the world provide the right to education justifiable allowing citizens’ legal accesses to challenge the failures of the education system.
It said that accountability in education begins with governments, which bears the primary duty to ensure the right to education because every country in the world has ratified at least one international treaty in this regard.