Future at stake: ‘Vested interests working on anti-education agenda’

Claims conspiracies are being hatched to compromise sovereignty of country


Our Correspondent September 14, 2018
PHOTO: AFP

BAHAWALPUR: PPP South Punjab President Makhdoom Syed Ahmad Mehmood Bhatti has said some vested interests in education are the enemy of a strong, stable and developed Pakistan by compromising the standard of education through a foreign agenda.

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The PPP leader expressed these views on Thursday while commenting on the federal minister for education’s press conference. He remarked that conspiracies were being hatched to compromise the sovereignty of the country and the results of the intermediate examination indicate towards these conspiracies.

Bhatti said as long as an equal education system is not established, national development cannot take root. “We also need to improve the progress of existing government educational institutes,” he said.

“In the guise of private educational institutes, public enemies have been making education difficult for common people which has increased the problems of the middle class,” he remarked. “Government institutes have failed to deliver due to negligence while the ‘private education mafia’ is supporting the anti-education agenda of a handful of vested interests.

People are forced to send their children to work as educating them is well beyond their reach.”

He pointed out that a number of private academies in Pakistan, with a wide range of branches nationwide, have not deposited their due taxes. “Why does the board of revenue not take action against them?”

“Medical and engineering colleges established in the private sector charge a hefty fee, one which a common man cannot afford.

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There is a need to increase the capacity of medical and engineering colleges according to needs so that more and more students can be accommodated in government institutions and become part of national development,” he concluded.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 14th, 2018.

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