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  • Sindh CM promises to overhaul public education system

    Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday promised to overhaul the public education system through unprecedented measures aimed at reforming the system. According to his envisioned plan, the SIndh government will work to improve teaching skills, make education totally free, develop a high quality curriculum and offer stipends to girl students.

    The plan was laid out in a meeting to review the overall performance of the provincial education department, attended by Provincial Minister of Education Jam Mehtab Dahar, Chief Secretary Rizwan Mmon, Education Secretary Aziz Uqaili, Additional Secretary Nawaz Sohu and other officers.

    The chief minister directed the education minister to review the curriculum being taught in government schools for all classes.

    “I want to overhaul the entire curriculum, for which leading educationists, literary figures and other individuals may invited to give their suggestions,” he said, adding that the first phase of the exercise should involve the removal of mistakes from curriculum books.

    Shah also claimed that he was working to establish a state-of-the-art teacher training academy to train professional teachers and induct them in schools.

    On being pointed out that around 3,000 teachers retire from service every year, the chief minister said this showed that the education department needed over 3,000 trained teachers each year.

    “Lets develop a cycle to produce properly-trained teachers every year,” he said.

    The chief minister also said he wanted to make public education totally free in the province, to which the chief secretary informed him that education was already free. However, Shah noted that students had to pay examination fees, and directed the education department data to work out a detailed proposal in this regard by collecting examination board-wise data of students who appear in examinations each year.

    Shah also decided to provide a stipend to over 300,000 girl students from all over Sindh at the rate of Rs2,500 to Rs3,500 every month.

    "This must be done in a transparent manner so that the actual fruits of this scheme can be harvested by poor parents, girl students who want to complete their education, and the government in improving the literacy ratio," he directed.

    The chief minister said illiteracy was the root of all ills. “If we succeed in developing a good education system by inducting well-trained teachers and introducing a decent curriculum, we will be able to eliminate terrorism, crime and other evils from society without shedding blood,” he said as he declared an 'educational emergency' in the province.