The government of Khyber Pakhtukhwan announced the latest notification regarding the school and college teachers. According to the latest notification, the government decided to regularize 58,000 school and college teachers. Not only this, the government also regularize thousands of ex-FATA project employees and hundreds of doctors. The KP government has allocated Rs. 2.4 billion for scholarships for talented female students while Rs. 900 million have been allocated for scholarships for bright male students.
The provincial government allocated Rs. 500 million for scholarships for students of classes 1 to 8. Not only this, the provincial government has launched ‘Education Cards’ to enable talented students to study at top-ranking national higher education institutes. The KP government has allocated Rs. 1 billion for the Education Cards, an initiative that has been designed on the same pattern as Health Cards, the flagship healthcare program of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).