Sindh Education Foundation to open 200 schools in villages along riverbanks
The provincial budget for education has been increased by Rs50m.
KARACHI:
The Sindh Education Foundation’s board of governors held a meeting on Friday at Chief Minister House to discuss the implementation of several projects with Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah. One item on their agenda is to open around 200 schools in areas along riverbanks.
At the meeting, the foundation’s chairman, Prof. Anita Ghulam Ali, and managing director, Aziz Kabbani, discussed the progress it had made during its twenty years of existence.
Kabbani said that 7,995 teachers have been employed under different educational schemes since 2008 and the foundation has also trained 4,000 teachers and school administrators.
The foundation has allotted Rs4.5 million to the Promoting Private Schooling in Rural Sindh programme. It has already provided around 130,500 textbooks for grades one through four to schools under the programme.
The board of governors also decided to open around 200 schools in the riverine areas. Educational institutions will also be established in the desert areas of the province.
It was also decided that primary level schools which come under the foundation will be registered with the education department on the condition that Sindhi will be taught in them, as is the law. The board of governors also approved the creation of an endowment fund and the Sindh government’s budgetary allocation to education was raised from Rs150 million to Rs200 million.
Senior education minister Pir Mazharul Haq, information minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, Sindh chief secretary Raja Muhammad Abbas and finance secretary Naveed Kamran Baloch also attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2012.
The Sindh Education Foundation’s board of governors held a meeting on Friday at Chief Minister House to discuss the implementation of several projects with Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah. One item on their agenda is to open around 200 schools in areas along riverbanks.
At the meeting, the foundation’s chairman, Prof. Anita Ghulam Ali, and managing director, Aziz Kabbani, discussed the progress it had made during its twenty years of existence.
Kabbani said that 7,995 teachers have been employed under different educational schemes since 2008 and the foundation has also trained 4,000 teachers and school administrators.
The foundation has allotted Rs4.5 million to the Promoting Private Schooling in Rural Sindh programme. It has already provided around 130,500 textbooks for grades one through four to schools under the programme.
The board of governors also decided to open around 200 schools in the riverine areas. Educational institutions will also be established in the desert areas of the province.
It was also decided that primary level schools which come under the foundation will be registered with the education department on the condition that Sindhi will be taught in them, as is the law. The board of governors also approved the creation of an endowment fund and the Sindh government’s budgetary allocation to education was raised from Rs150 million to Rs200 million.
Senior education minister Pir Mazharul Haq, information minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, Sindh chief secretary Raja Muhammad Abbas and finance secretary Naveed Kamran Baloch also attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2012.