117 regular handicraft centres operational in KP

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PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was told that the Department of Social Welfare and Special Education launched as many as 125 handicraft centres, under a scheme, in the annual development program in 2014-15, with a total of Rs 301.128 million.

In a written reply, the KP assembly was informed that in these centres, 210 women were hired on contract basis for a period of five years, while 12,350 females were trained in different skills.

Under the minority quota, the government was hiring services of 94 lecturers and doctors: Wazir Zada

In 2019-20, the scheme was removed from the ADP; but the next year, the authorities approved the project under a non-ADP scheme with a total cost of Rs 99.645 million.

At present, there are 117 handicraft centres in different districts of the province. To another question, Minister for Minority Affairs Wazir Zada told the House that the provincial government was implementing a 5 per cent quota for minorities in government jobs and had reduced the passing marks for police service in order to facilitate the minority community.

The KP govt was not only implementing a 5 per cent quota for RMs in jobs, but had reduced the passing marks for police service to facilitate them

He said that under the minority quota, the government was hiring services of 94 lecturers and doctors. Similarly, 2 per cent quota was allocated for minorities in the Social Welfare department due to a shortage of seats in the department.

JUI-F lead Ranjeet Singh criticized the provincial government for its dual standards in the implementation of minority quota and said that the government was claiming a 5 per cent quota in all government jobs. However, in a department, the 2 per cent quota was being observed.