The male and female literacy rate in Sindh is 70% and 46%, respectively
JAMSHORO: Education is very important. Yet, Sindh, a province full of old traditions and customs, is lagging behind in education. According to the Pakistan Survey 2017-2018, the male and female literacy rate in Sindh is 70% and 46%, respectively.
Like other provinces of Pakistan, Sindh too suffers from problems of poverty and hunger, besides unemployment. After the 18th Amendment was passed by the National Assembly, provinces were given the responsibility to provide basic facilities to people. But the deteriorating situation in Sindh, especially the state of education, is proof that the government lacks interest in setting things right.
The problems of absentee teachers, incomplete boundary walls of school buildings, lack of water and sanitation facilities and poor infrastructure in schools are evidence of the apathy of the authorities.
I request the newly-elected government to devise and implement effective education policies in order to develop the education system in Sindh. Nelson Mandela had said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Amjad Ali Kosh
Published in The Express Tribune, August 16th, 2018.
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