Minister of Education (shafqat mehmood)

Minister of Education (shafqat mehmood):-

Shafqat says ultimate choice on resuming instructive foundations in staged way to be taken on Sept 7

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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood has said that some phony online media accounts in his name are getting out bogus word that schools will stay shut until October. 

In a tweet on Friday, the priest said that instruction pastors everything being equal, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) will meet on forthcoming Monday (September 7) to at long last choose returning of instructive foundations and there is probability of resuming of schools from September 15 out of a staged way. 

"Some phony records in my name are getting out bogus word that schools will stay shut till Oct. False. Training pastors meet on seventh to at long last choose with probability of opening on Sept 15 of every a staged way," the priest tweeted. 

On August 21, Shafqat Mahmood had said a ultimate choice to return schools that were shut in March to forestall the spread of Covid would be taken at a between commonplace instruction priests' meeting on September 7. 

Talking at a question and answer session, he said that the Ministry of Health will devise standard working methods (SOPs) for instructive establishments to follow to forestall the spread of the infection. Schools will resume from Sept 15 given that the Covid circumstance improves, he included.