‘PPP to set up girl schools in all villages’



LAKKI MARWAT - PPP Provincial President and MPA Anwar Saifullah Khan said on Friday that PPP would establish girls primary schools at village level besides the schools being used by influential as their hujras would be made function for promoting female education if voted to power in the province.
This he said while speaking at the inaugural function of a female literacy centre set up by national commission for human development at Manjiwala village. NCHD officials, PPP office bearers and area elders also attended the function.
NCHD district general manager Tahir Bashir said on the occasion that ninety such centres had been set up in the entire district under literacy phase 2013. He said that ninety teachers and nine supervisors had been recruited to literate over two thousands female learners aging 11-45 years. 
Saifullah said that though the PPP-led government failed on several fronts like overcoming energy crisis but at the same time it launched Benazir Income Support Programme and other such like schemes to alleviate poverty and raise the living of women in the country.
“Today females are getting financial aid, education and other facilities at their doorsteps”, he maintained. He told that allies did not let the PPP government to serve masses in a better way.
“Our government spent most of the time to appease its coalition partners in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and in the centre”, the PPP provincial chief said.  He alleged that the ANP govt established universities to appoint blue eyed people as vice chancellors, sell jobs and award contracts to near and dear ones instead of promoting higher education in the province.

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