Students from Sindh studying at Quaid-e-Azam varsity, Islamabad are being deprived of Sindh Endowment Fund Scholarship
ISLAMABAD: Students from Sindh studying at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad are being deprived of their right to the Sindh Endowment Fund Scholarship. After qualifying in Karachi, they have not received a single penny. On the other hand, students studying at different universities in Sindh are being paid regularly.
Living in Islamabad is expensive in itself and educational expenses even for public-sector universities are skyrocketing. Neither the university administration nor the Sindh Secretariat are responding to the financially-strained students’ pleas. The only response received from the education secretary’s office is from his personal assistant, who says that “sir” is in an urgent meeting, stuck in a traffic jam, or suggests that we call on his personal phone number. That personal number phone call never goes through.
Unable to meet tuition costs and other expenses, distressed students cannot focus on their studies. When students are unable to meet education costs, it is the responsibility of the government to support them. Students, who are the future of any country, if constrained like this, can never become an asset for the nation. Education, being an essential right of citizens, should be distributed fairly as it builds the moral and social sense of the youth. If ignored, it can result in destructive outcomes for society at large. The government needs to speed up its process in distributing scholarships to merit-holders.
Nadeem Baloch
Published in The Express Tribune, March 14th, 2016.
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