Balochistan’s concern: Increase in educational budget hinted

Balochistan Chief Minister’s adviser on education expresses displeasure over grim education situation in...

QUETTA: The Balochistan Chief Minister’s Adviser on Education, Sardar Raza Mohammad Baraich, said that education budget will be increased from 23 per cent to 26 per cent in the coming fiscal year 2014-15. In the previous year, government had earmarked 23 per cent of total budget for education. “Data of the non-government organisations about enrolment and out of school children in Balochistan is baseless and false,” he said while addressing a day-long workshop organised by the Mishal under its IlM-o-Agahi programme at Quetta Press Club on Thursday. Baraich expressed displeasure over the grim education situation in Balochistan. “Education had never been the priority of any regime for the last 67 years,” he said, adding the sheer negligence in this regard has put Balochistan scores of years behind other provinces.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 4^th, 2014.