Former Chief Secretary Gilgit Baltistan Mohiuddin Wani took revolutionary steps in education, health and other sectors

Islamabad: Outgoing Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan Mohiuddin Wani will be remembered for years due to his revolutionary actions, he took great steps to revolutionize the lives of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan during his 19-month tenure.

Due to the efforts of Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan Mohiuddin Wani, the Gilgit-Baltistan government has taken significant measures to promote education, health, IT, tourism in the region and reduce environmental pollution. started.

Under this program, food is being given to children in 70 government primary schools across Gilgit-Baltistan, in district Gilgit, Diamer and Skardu, these children are given food 6 days a week, with the support of Allahwala Trust, due to providing food in these schools. The attendance of children has reached 90%.

200 schools in Gilgit-Baltistan are being taught computer and entrepreneurship under the STEM system, 34 schools across the region have been converted into smart schools, where state-of-the-art IT equipment has been installed, including interactive smart TV, LM S, off-site and on-site servers are provided.

200 more primary and middle schools are being equipped with smart technology, with the support of the federal government, most of the schools in Gilgit-Baltistan will be converted into smart schools in the next few months.

In this regard, an agreement has been reached between the Gilgit-Baltistan Education Department and the Special Communication Organization during October 2023 under which 180 more schools will be converted into smart schools.

Apart from this, “OGDCL” has also recently entered into an agreement under which 10 more schools in the region will be converted into smart schools with the help of OGDCL.

Smart interactive whiteboards, multimedia projectors, Corei 7K computer system, online and offline LMS as well as digital libraries are being set up in middle areas of Skardu, especially Rondo and Gumba sub-divisions.

Prefabricated classrooms and washrooms are being provided in 55 flood-affected schools of Gilgit-Baltistan. The project has been approved by the Gilgit-Baltistan Departmental Working Party, under which 55 classrooms, washrooms and IT will be provided in these schools. Equipment will be provided including Learning Management System. These schools will be provided with the same facilities as before the flood.

In July 2023, Summer Learning Festa was organized in Gilgit-Baltistan in which 12 organizations and educational institutions of Gilgit-Baltistan taught the students. Included were NHA, Learn O Bots, Airblow, Karandaz and Yagradare.

28,000 students participated in this 10-day summer festival and participated in educational activities, including IT boot camps, mathematics clubs, mental health sessions, field trips and yoga classes. These festivals help in providing healthy mental activities to the youth.

With the efforts of Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan Mohiuddin Wani, the education fellow program was also started in the region, the Gilgit-Baltistan government completed the recruitment of 1000 education fellows through third party outsourcing.

A consortium of LUMS, Knowledge Platform, KIU and AKUIED was approved by the Gilgit-Baltistan Education Department after a competitive process. These 1,000 Education Fellows will help address the teacher shortage across the region These one thousand teachers have been recruited on contract basis.

Due to the efforts of Mohiuddin Wani, a project has been started in the region by Pakistan Karandaz, an organization funded by the Bill and Malinda Foundation, under which financial literacy will be taught to male and female students of Gilgit-Baltistan.

Students will be taught the principles of finance and budgeting, financial decisions, Karandaz Pakistan will be taught about economics in 1100 primary schools of Gilgit-Baltistan. The government of Gilgit-Baltistan will complete the project in collaboration with the National Institute of Banking and Finance and Karandaz.

Similarly, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has contracted to teach investment and finance to the youth of the region through its savings program, and SECP has established the Institute of Financial Markets for university-going students and faculty members. 3.4 million rupees scholarships have been announced for obtaining certifications from Pakistan.

Due to the efforts of the Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan Mohiuddin Wani, solar energy has been provided in the IT laboratories of 184 schools in the region, while the IT equipment of 28 more schools will be powered by solar energy in the next three weeks so that despite the long power outage. Teaching and learning can be continued in schools.

KIPS coaching program was started with the efforts of Muhyiddin Wani, under this program free coaching will be provided by KIPS in the evening to 2000 schools in Gilgit, Chalas and Nagar to the students of ninth to twelfth standard so that they can attend Pakistani and foreign universities. I can take admission.

An education finance scheme has also been started in the same region. Under this scheme, started by the efforts of former Chief Secretary Mohiuddin Wani, the students of Gilgit-Baltistan who will be able to get admission in the top 15 universities of Pakistan will be given loans. will be provided.

Students will repay these loans five years after completing their degree. Under this scheme, a girl who managed to get admission in NUST University has also been given a loan.

During the tenure of Mohiuddin Wani, an agreement has been signed between the National College of Arts and the government of Gilgit-Baltistan under which NCA will open its campus in Gilgit-Baltistan. The government of Gilgit-Baltistan has also allocated 35 kanals of government land for this campus.

Apart from this, for the first time in the history of Gilgit-Baltistan, the entrance tests of NC and NIST are also being conducted, due to which the students of the region have been relieved from going to remote areas to take the entrance test.