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| Pak govt asks for lists of seminaries | |
| 2004-12-28 | |
| The federal government has planned to utilise funds provided in the Annual Development Plan for the development of seminaries and has asked provincial governments, Northern Areas and the administration of the federal capital to provide lists of registered religious seminaries located in their respective territories. The Ministry of Education has also prepared a concise questionnaire for this purpose and has sent copies to concerned authorities for distribution. Through the questionnaires the ministry of education plans to identify the seminaries worthy of financial assistance. A source in the education ministry said that not even a single seminary would be able to meet the requirements set by the ministry. The education ministry has asked concerned authorities to collect information about the qualification of the teaching staff at the seminaries and give certificates in the fields like sewing, composing, typing. They have also been asked to provide a list of the teaching staff and students that have been sent abroad by the government for higher education. In the questionnaire, seminaries have been asked to provide details about medical facilities available to students. The questionnaire also asks about the number of doctors and allied staff working at the facilities and the number of patients who use the facilities every week. The questionnaire also seeks information about expenditures of the seminaries, including the salaries of the teaching staff, utility bills and above all the sources of income of these seminaries. Sources said that the education ministry scrapped a list of seminaries compiled by the district administration of Islamabad saying that the list did not correspond with the one prepared by the ministry. Sources added that according to the Capital Police, 292 seminaries were working in the federal capital, out of which only 144 had been registered.
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| Posted by:Fred |