‘Sindh serious about improving its education sector’

SUKKUR: Sindh education secretary Fazalullah Pechuho expressing satisfaction over the work done by the Sindh Education Reforms Initiative, said that the initiative is a public-private partnership scheme, aimed to improve education in the province.

Pechuho explained that the Asian Development Bank has approved funds of $20 million for the programme. After completing work in the Naz School, other schools will follow. Some of the schools are being reconstructed with help from the USAID, one of which is the Modern High School in Sukkur. Pechuho was of the opinion that during the last four decades, unmeritorious teachers were recruited, which resulted in the decline of the education sector in the province. “We are carrying this baggage from the past and trying to improve the system to repair the damage done to the education sector during the last many years,” he reasoned.

Speaking about the biometric system, he said it had helped a lot in identifying the actual place of posting of teachers and their attendance. Quoting survey report of the Education Management Sytsem, he said that the condition of educational institutions and the education sector was far better in Sindh as compared to the Punjab.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 15^th, 2015.