The Schools Education department will launch a bilingual “Student Times” magazine for the school level students to promote their intellectual ken and writing abilities. This magazine will encourage them to exhibit their latent potential of writing.
He stated this while presiding over a departmental meeting at Committee Room of Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, here today. During the meeting, the MD PCTB Rana Abdul Qayyum apprised the participants about the launch of a monthly “Student Times” from March 23 this year. This magazine will be published in Urdu and English languages. The launch ceremony will be held at Aiwan-e-Iqbal on March 15. This magazine will be sent to different public schools and libraries and the writings of the students, their parents and teachers will be included in it. The best writers from 6th class to intermediate level will be appointed as magazine ambassadors. The meeting was further told that this magazine will be uploaded at the official website of the Schools Education Department. The Minister directed to constitute magazine committees in all the public sector schools adding that complimentary certificates should be given to the best student writers by the department so that others could be encouraged towards writing.
Earlier, the meeting of a committee constituted on the directions of Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif to identify hatful and immoral material in un-prescribed books and helping material of Schools Education and Higher Education level was held with Provincial Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan in the chair. The meeting was attended by Special Secretary Schools Rana Hassan Akhtar, MD PCTB Abdul Qayyum and representatives of Higher Education, Police, Prosecution, Law, FIA and Information & Culture Departments. Addressing the meeting, Rana Mashhood said that no helping material will be sold in the market without the departmental NOC of PCTB. Keeping in view the importance of this matter, the line departments will finalize a consensus roadmap within next 20 days to move further in an organized manner in this regard. He directed to constitute a special committee to review all the books being used in the institutions of Schools Education and Higher Education. He also directed to initiate police action against the publication of books containing hatful material.