CM Punjab Announces Special Schools For Transgender Children

Maryam Nawaz, the CM Punjab. Has directed the relevant authorities to provide special education facilities. To children with disabilities in at least one government school. Per district, in addition to announcing the creation. Of a transgender school at the division level.

These choices were made at a meeting to review. The province’s proposed school education reforms.

CM Nawaz declared, “Schools for trans­ge­nder [community]. Will be established at divisional level,” while presiding over the review meeting.

Fascinatingly, transgender schools were previously located. In nine out of eleven divisions in Punjab. The previous PTI government spearheaded the initiative. Overseen by Murad Raas, the Punjab Minister for School Education at the time.

Principal Alisha Sherazi of Trans Educational School System. In Multan informed Dawn that no government representative had gotten. In touch with them regarding the creation of transgender schools because. They were already established in D.G. Khan, Gujran wala. Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Gujrat, Multan, and Bahawalpur. She said that only the Lahore-based one was shut down later.

Transgender woman Alisha Sherazi, a former UNDP consultant. Who completed her MPhil in Education, Planning, and Management. At Burhanuddin Zakaria University, revealed that three schools—D.G. Khan, Multan. And Bahawalpur—were providing vocational training to transgender people. The principal said that while other schools concentrated on academics. Those four labs were set up for IT, sewing, cooking, and makeup classes.

Alisha noted that the government was unsure of the precise number. Of members of the transgender community in the Punjab.

Which Instructions Given By CM Punjab?

CM Maryam Nawaz gave pertinent officials instructions. During the meeting to establish a new. All-inclusive process for choosing CEOs, DEOs. And DDEOs in each district that adheres to international best practices.

She also observed that the delivery of textbooks to schools was delayed. Nonetheless, the chief minister was given assurances by the officials present. At the meeting that textbooks would be supplied to every school by May. According to them, 41% of the textbook supply had already been fulfilled. She was informed that textbooks would be available. In schools by February of the following year.

A brand-new children’s book about environmental pollution. And climate change was also given to the CM.

Speakers at the meeting included Senator-elect Pervaiz Rashid. MPA Sania Ashiq, chief secretary, senior minister Marriyum Aurangzeb. Information minister Azma Zahid Bukhari, and other pertinent officials. Minister for School Education Rana Sikandar Hayat was also present.