Around 90 per cent of the education budget is spent on recruitment, teachers’ salaries, etc.
ISLAMABAD: The state of education in Sindh is in great jeopardy. Schools run by the government are housed in dilapidated buildings. Most of these buildings are on the brink of collapse. Around 49 per cent of schools do not even have basic facilities, such as electricity, drinking water, wash rooms while more than 18,000 schools do not have boundary walls.
The Sindh government has certainly increased the education budget. But its positive impact still cannot be seen in the education sector because no one in the province seems to know how to use the funds in an appropriate manner. Around 7.3 million children in Sindh are still out of school. The age cohort of these children is between five and 16 years.
The reason behind this failure is negligence, corruption and absolute misallocation of funds. Around 90 per cent of the education budget is spent on recruitment, teachers’ salaries, etc. But what is the point of spending on these when students do not even turn up at school? I request the Sindh minister of education to utilise the allocated budget in areas where it is most needed.
Zuhaib Ali Lashari
Published in The Express Tribune, January 27th, 2015.
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