The aim is to improve the standard of education and curb corruption. Karachi DCO Muhammad Hussein Syed decided this on Thursday. The city will first change schools in Lyari town within the next 10 days.
The problem is that four to six schools are operating in a single premises but under different names and with different administrations. A majority of them are separated and in two or three rooms. Under the new system, there would be one headmaster, headmistress or principal.
“The CDGK’s initiatives are in compliance with the technical papers recently prepared by the provincial government, which recommended [this],” the DCO said during a meeting with the chairperson of the education committee, Farhana Iqbal, EDO and education district officers. “The administrative and financial powers would be delegated to the principal of the school and thus unified it would help improve the standard of education and would check the unwanted flow of public funds.”
The city feels that running many schools in a few rooms had failed to yield productive results.
Markets
The DCO also issued orders to start work on shifting wholesale markets, warehouses and truck stands to the 1,490-acre plot provided by the Sindh government near the Northern Bypass to end congestion in the middle of the city.
They will first move truck stands, warehouses, cold storage houses and the pipe factories. Next, they will set up markets for iron, scrap, timber, wholesale, paper, cloth, furniture, car showrooms and asphalt plant at the land by the bypass.
This effort will need to be undertaken in consultation with the market representatives.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 9th, 2011.
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