colleagues that government would review the school rationalisation policy

Government to review school rationalisation policy
Lahore: After being put to pressure by Members and Speaker Punjab Assembly on Monday, provincial Minister for Education Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman had to bow assuring his colleagues that government would review the school rationalisation policy, and establish regulatory authority to check private schools' fee.
While responding to queries during the Question-Hour on school education, Shuja was also found lost when members gave him hard time, and he admitted departmental mistakes by saying, "Worthy member might have been right sir! I will check from the Department."
The Minister had to give assurance on behalf of his government that the rationalisation policy would be reviewed when Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal also joined the members in their verbal protest over the 'irrational' policy since it was causing problems to the students, who had to travel miles for reaching 'new' institutions, which was in turn hurting the very assertion of providing education to all in a convenient manner for increasing the literacy. "Why were the elected representatives of the constituencies concerned not informed or taken into confidence for the policies that directly affect them?" quizzed the members, while the Speaker further asked the Minister, "Why had the EDO-Education not consulted the MPA concerned while merging different educational institutions?"
Members also criticised the education policy of the government and put question marks on various initiatives.
"The Daanish Schools are being opened, but the Mosque-Schools are being closed," they added, and seeing serious objections being raised, he assured, "The government will look into its decision again."
Moreover, to a query, he replied that the government was in the process of introducing an educational regulatory authority for tackling matters of divergent nature, especially steep fees.
"The government has already constituted a committee and its report will be presented in the House," he added.