SED to appoint heads of 400 primary schools of Lahore.

LAHORE -- The Punjab School Education Department (SED) has decided to appoint permanent heads of 400 primary schools in Lahore.

The SED, under a reconstruction and rehabilitation policy, decided to use resources to build and rehabilitate the primary schools of the city.It directed the chief executive officer (CEO) of the District Education Authority to appoint permanent heads of the 400 primary schools. Under the new policy, a primary school would have at least one head and three teachers.

The department constituted an 11-member committee for rehabilitation of the primary schools. SED Deputy Secretary Dr Kaleem would lead the committee to look after all the rehabilitation process, including construction of new classrooms and washrooms. Other 10 committee members would be from teachers, district officers and the Programme Monitoring and Implementation Unite (PMIU).

The committee, in its recent meeting, decided to make some of the primary schools model schools and it would further submit its report to the department on Jan 15, 2021.

Earlier, the government had also decided to implement rationalisation policy in the schools and transfer and post all the teachers under the policy.

Under the...