MULTAN-The price of Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif’s dreaming is to be paid by the teachers of the province. Education authorities in the province say that the CM has a dream that each child of the province goes to school. In order to make this dream come true, the education department Multan has devised a ‘weird’ strategy as all the teachers are asked to bring at least 15 kids for admissions.
Education sources said that all the teachers have been directed to ensure admissions of 15 students at any cost.  Sources added that the success or failure in achievement of admission target will be mentioned in the annual performance report of all teachers.  The condition of admissions has caused serious unrest among the teachers and the teachers union are learnt to have started devising policy to cope with this situation.  
It may not be out of place to mention here that the education department Multan has fixed the target of 180,000 admission and the District Education Officers as well as MC (Schools) have been assigned duties to achieve the target. Education sources claimed that DEOs Secondary and Elementary (Male and Female) have been given the target of 55,000 admissions, MC (Schools) 10,000 and MC (Literacy) 5,000.
GROWING INTOLERANCE LINKED TO ILLITERACY:  District Coordination Officer Zahid Saleem Gondal has said that the reason behind increasing intolerance and extremism in the society is illiteracy, adding that the nations denying respect to the teachers face serious decline.
Addressing the participants of a training workshop for newly recruited educators here at Government Elementary Teachers Training College on Tuesday, he added that only those nations made progress and led the world that recognized the services of teachers and accorded them respect.
He said that the target of moral and social training of the nation could be achieved through promotion of literacy and the teacher had a key role in this process. He asked newly recruited educators to become role model for their students and inculcate high moral values in them.
He congratulated the educators and claimed that the process for their recruitment was made 100 per cent transparent. “Our Chief Minister has a dream that every child goes to school and become a useful citizen. You (educators) are the only people who can make this dream come true,” he added.