ISLAMABAD : The Islamabad Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Sunday lauded the government for focusing on promotion of education which is imperative for the national development. Higher education sector is already performing well producing more research papers per capita than India, it said.  The former government neglected education and slashed the HEC budget by half but the PML-N has again upward revised it and promised to increase education budget to four per cent of the GDP by 2018, said Farida Rashid, President IWCCI.
Talking to business community, she said that taxing education should be reconsidered as its implications may not be in the national interest. She said that serious steps are needed for raising the standards of education after a detailed valuation which must include de-ghosting of around thirty thousand primary schools closed since decades depriving generations of children of education.