Shafqat Mehmood emphasises on exhausting work, discourages college students from shortcuts

The Federal Minister for Training and Skilled Coaching Shafqat Mehmood on Wednesday night took to his Twitter account and despatched a motivational message to college students. 

The minister requested college students to work exhausting to have a brilliant future and discouraged them from in search of shortcuts as such routes lead nowhere.

“There is a time in life to study and prepare for challenges of the future. And then a time to enjoy [the] fruits of this labour for the remaining years,” the minister wrote.

The minister then suggested college students to chorus from malpractices as they don’t maintain any advantages in the long term.

“No one has achieved anything significant in life without hard work. Looking for shortcuts or free passes is a road to nowhere,” he wrote.

A day prior, Shafqat Mehmood had introduced that on-campus courses for college kids until grade 8, in districts affected essentially the most by the coronavirus, will stay suspended until April 28.

Whereas holding a press briefing, the minister stated the choice was taken after holding an necessary assembly on the Nationwide Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), which was attended by all of the schooling and well being ministers.

“It has been decided that physical classes will not be held from grades 1-8 till April 28 in districts affected by the coronavirus pandemic,” stated Mehmood. “It must be borne in mind that not every district in Pakistan has been affected by [the] coronavirus.”

He had stated the schooling minister of Punjab had knowledgeable him that 13 districts throughout the province have been affected by the coronavirus, therefore on-campus courses won’t be held there until April 28.

He added that the Sindh authorities had already introduced its resolution of suspending on-campus courses from grades 1-8 and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had achieved the identical. 

The minister had additionally stated consultations shall be held whether or not these on-campus courses will stay suspended until Eid or whether or not they need to be resumed “in some staggered way”. 

He stated courses of grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 shall be held underneath strict compliance of coronavirus SOPs from April 19 onwards, in order that these college students can full their preparation for his or her upcoming exams.

“Universities in affected districts will also remain closed and classes will be held online,” he stated, including that in different districts, universities will stay open and performance as regular.