Higher enrolment: CM directs SEF to expand educational network to underprivileged areas
Appreciates the management for adding 318 new schools with 40,000 added enrolments
KARACHI:
Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, who is also the chairperson of the Board of Governors for Sindh Education Foundation (SEF), directed the SEF management to expand their educational network in the province, especially to the less developed areas.
The purpose of this expansion of network is to achieve the target of the enrolment of one million students by the year 2018 in Sindh.
He was presiding over a meeting held at CM House to review the performance of the SEF and its achievements.
He appreciated the efforts of the management for adding 318 new schools with 40,000 added enrolments. Their existing cluster comprises 3,000 schools with 350,000 students across the province, as of November 2014.
Shah said that his government has the provision of quality education as a top priority. His government has made an allocation of a substantial budget for the purpose alongside reforms to ensure merit to achieve millennium goals.
Addressing the meeting, the chief minister said that in addition to the allocation of provincial education department, the Sindh government has allocated an amount of Rs2.2 billion in the current financial year for the administrative and operational expenditures of the SEF.
Shah directed the relevant officials to release the allocated fund within shortest possible time.
He also assured the participants that the provincial government has also decided to establish an endowment fund with seed money of Rs5 billion to strengthen the SEF.
Briefing the chief minister at the meeting, SEF managing director Aziz Kabani said that, at present, as many as 350,000 students were being provided quality education through 3,000 SEF schools and 9,000 teachers. This education is being provided free of charge across the province, he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2014.
Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, who is also the chairperson of the Board of Governors for Sindh Education Foundation (SEF), directed the SEF management to expand their educational network in the province, especially to the less developed areas.
The purpose of this expansion of network is to achieve the target of the enrolment of one million students by the year 2018 in Sindh.
He was presiding over a meeting held at CM House to review the performance of the SEF and its achievements.
He appreciated the efforts of the management for adding 318 new schools with 40,000 added enrolments. Their existing cluster comprises 3,000 schools with 350,000 students across the province, as of November 2014.
Shah said that his government has the provision of quality education as a top priority. His government has made an allocation of a substantial budget for the purpose alongside reforms to ensure merit to achieve millennium goals.
Addressing the meeting, the chief minister said that in addition to the allocation of provincial education department, the Sindh government has allocated an amount of Rs2.2 billion in the current financial year for the administrative and operational expenditures of the SEF.
Shah directed the relevant officials to release the allocated fund within shortest possible time.
He also assured the participants that the provincial government has also decided to establish an endowment fund with seed money of Rs5 billion to strengthen the SEF.
Briefing the chief minister at the meeting, SEF managing director Aziz Kabani said that, at present, as many as 350,000 students were being provided quality education through 3,000 SEF schools and 9,000 teachers. This education is being provided free of charge across the province, he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2014.