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PESHAWAR:
Lawmakers on Friday took up the problem of poor web connection for college students within the distant areas of the province, noting that the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic implies that on-line lessons are the one means for acquiring schooling for college students now.
This was mentioned because the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Ok-P) Assembly resumed on Friday to debate the provincial price range 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’ll entry lessons.
Moreover, they lamented {that a} ladies faculty constructed within the Mohmand tribal district has but to start out functioning regardless that its construction was accomplished years in the past.
During the dialogue on the supplementary price range for the fiscal yr 2019-20 value Rs55.42 billion, the problem of a laptop computer scheme was raised.
Opposition lawmakers together with Pakistan Peoples Party’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 knowledge expertise sector within the supplementary price range to supply laptops to academics.
They famous that if academics will be supplied laptops, then what in regards to the college students and known 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 shedding 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 degree officer arrived on the meeting on Friday.
However, the deputy speaker didn’t enable him to enter the session as he expressed his anger over the absence of senior officers.
He then directed a DIG degree 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. They additionally 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 examine and steadiness on the division, they claimed that the police was doing what it needs.
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 based mostly on the private likes and dislikes of the finance and chief ministers. Moreover, he stated that lawmaker of the merged districts has been fully ignored.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 27th, 2020.
