File photograph of K-P Meeting. PHOTO: AFP
PESHAWAR: Lawmakers on Friday took up the difficulty of poor web connection for college students within the distant areas of the province, noting that the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic signifies that on-line lessons are the one means for acquiring schooling for college students now.
This was mentioned because the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Meeting resumed on Friday to debate the provincial funds for the fiscal yr 2020-21.
MPAs raised questions on on-line lessons within the province. They urged the provincial authorities to make sure college students have entry to 3G and 4G networks, particularly within the merged districts, in order that they will entry lessons.
Furthermore, they lamented {that a} women school constructed within the Mohmand tribal district has but to start out functioning despite the fact that its construction was accomplished years in the past.
Through the dialogue on the supplementary funds for the fiscal yr 2019-20 price Rs55.42 billion, the difficulty of a laptop computer scheme was raised.
Opposition lawmakers together with Pakistan Peoples Celebration’s (PPP) Nighat Orakzai, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) Maulana Lutfur Rehman, Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Inyatullah Khan, Mir Kalam Wazir, Shafiq Afridi, Baseerat Bibi, Khushdil Khan, Shagufta Malik and others stated {that a} good-looking quantity had been allotted for the data know-how sector within the supplementary funds to supply laptops to lecturers.
They famous that if lecturers could be offered laptops, then what concerning the college students and referred to as for larger transparency within the programme.
The opposition benches additionally raised considerations over the plight of the inmates in prisons throughout the province throughout the pandemic. They slammed the federal government for dropping management of the paperwork.
Police reforms
On the instructions of Deputy Speaker Mahmood Khan for a senior police officer attend the meeting proceedings, an SP stage officer arrived on the meeting on Friday.
Nonetheless, the deputy speaker didn’t permit him to enter the session as he expressed his anger over the absence of senior officers.
He then directed a DIG stage officer to attend the session.
Later, Peshawar CCPO Ali Gandapur visited the meeting foyer and marked his presence.
Lawmakers from throughout the aisle pointed to the necessity for police reforms. Additionally they requested the CCPO to elucidate experiences of extrajudicial killings and the harassment of residents at checkpoints arrange throughout the province.
Members of the opposition expressed their reservations over the dormant standing of the general public security fee. With no verify and stability on the division, they claimed that the police was doing what it desires.
The secretary of the house division was additionally accused of intentionally delaying the method of activating the fee. Opposition lawmakers additionally pointed to the incident within the Zangi space the place a motorcyclist was killed when he did not cease at a checkpoint.
Discriminatory allocations
Shafiq Afridi from the Khyber Tribal District accused the federal government of dividing growth funds primarily based on the private likes and dislikes of the finance and chief ministers. Furthermore, he stated that lawmaker of the merged districts has been fully ignored.
Printed in The Categorical Tribune, June 27th, 2020.
