Education: No textbooks for children of laborers

KARACHI: The Sindh Workers Welfare Board and Workers Welfare Fund have failed to provide textbooks, stationery and uniforms to approximately 32,000 children of labourers. The ongoing dispute between the board and fund has delayed the tender. In the past, there have been allegations that substandard stationery was provided to the students as the tenders were given to select contractors. The Workers Welfare Board has recommended that Rs3,000 be given to each child but nothing has been done yet. Mukhtar Hussain Soomro, the provincial secretary of labour, was not available for comment.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 29^th, 2011.