SIALKOT: Taking another step towards the promotion of quality education, the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has announced to encourage the heads and teachers of the government schools and colleges at every level for showing the good performance.
SCCI President Mansur Ahmed, while chairing an SCCI departmental committee for education promotion, declared that the SCCI would award gold medals and cash prizes to the heads and teachers of the government educational institutions
He said that it was the first time that the Sialkot exporters were moving towards the goal of education promotion and acknowledging the services of the teachers’ community and education sector at every level. He said that the promotion of quality education and easy access of the students to the education was the need of the day and was also vital for increasing the national literacy rate as well.
SCCI President added that the teachers were the masons of the nation and they should also focus on educating the students besides building the good character and personality of the students, enabling them to serve the nation and the country in a better way in the future as well.
He said that encouragement of the heads and teachers of the government educational institutions for the good results and performance was also direly needed.
Ahmed also pledged to make all out sincere efforts to ensure the early start of the grand mega project of establishment of a Technical University at Sialkot, saying that the government had already allocated 500 acres of land for this university which would help to provide the skilled labour force to the export oriented industry of Sialkot.
He said that the SCCI would soon hold a national level education conference at SCCI for finding out the ways to promote the quality education in Sialkot and brining betterment in the performance of the government schools and colleges in Sialkot. He assured SCCI’s full cooperation for this noble cause besides announcing to form a special monitoring committee which would monitor the performance of the said schools and college in Sialkot district, in this regard.
SCCI SVP Muhammad Sarfraz Butt, Chairman SCCI Departmental Committee for Education Promotion Dr. Khurram Anwar Khawaja, Dr. Muhammad Aslam Dar, Prof. Javaid Akhtar Billah (Principal Govt. Murray College Sialkot), Mian Muhammad Anwar , Prof. Munawar Mirza, RDO Abdul Rauf Mughal and Farzana Kausar (Deputy DEO Education Sialkot) also attended the meeting and they gave very positive and effective suggestions for education promotion in Sialkot under the umbrella of SCCI.
