Punjab Orders Enrollment Drive in Low-Performing Schools
IMPROVEMENT OF ENROLLMENT IN IDENTIFIED LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS
The Government of Punjab has directed education authorities in Dera Ghazi Khan, Layyah, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, and Kot Addu to take urgent measures to improve student enrollment in identified low-performing schools. According to an official letter issued by the Divisional Director (EE), DG Khan Division, on October 16, 2026, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), District Education Officers (DEOs), Deputy DEOs, and Assistant Education Officers (AEOs) must strengthen school enrollment, student attendance, and retention through community mobilization and the identification of out-of-school children. Education authorities have also been instructed to submit compliance reports by October 17, 2026, along with updated enrollment records and supporting evidence. The initiative aims to improve school enrollment in Punjab and strengthen monitoring of government schools.
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GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB
OFFICE OF DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR (EE)
DGKHAN DIVISION DGKHAN
Dated: 16th October, 2026
To,
-
Chief Executive Officer
District Education Authority Dera Ghazi Khan -
Chief Executive Officer
District Education Authority Layyah -
Chief Executive Officer
District Education Authority Muzaffargarh -
Chief Executive Officer
District Education Authority Rajanpur - Chief Executive Officer District Education Authority Kot Addu
With reference to Director Public Instruction (EE), South Punjab letter No.562/DPI(EE)/SP/AD/2026, DATED 16.10.2026 on the subject cited above.
The low-performing schools in your respective districts were visited by you and your subordinate field formations to assess the issues affecting their enrollment, attendance and overall performance.
You are directed to ensure that the concerned CEOs (DEAs), DEOs, Deputy DEOs and AEOs undertake target follow-up of these schools and ensure effective measures for improvement in enrollment, retention and attendance through community mobilization, identification of out-of-school children and retrieval of absent students.
The progress of each identified school shall be regularly monitored and verified at field level. The concerned formations shall remain responsible for ensuring measurable improvement in enrollment and for maintaining proper follow-up until the desired improvement is achieved.
A consolidated compliance report regarding the action taken and progress achieved in the five low-performing schools in the respective districts shall reach this Directorate and Office of Director Public Instruction (EE), South Punjab by Saturday, 17th October, 2026, along with relevant SIS screenshots and photographs of the Roznama showing the updated enrollment position. Thereafter, weekly overall enrollment progress shall be submitted on a division-wise and district-wise basis, indicating the baseline enrollment, target enrollment, current enrollment, and percentage of target achieved.
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A copy is forwarded for information and necessary action to the:-
- DIRECTOR PUBLIC INSTRUCTION (EE)
