Snail-paced progress on decisions of Education’s Steering Committee

By: Yasir Babbar


KARACHI, Oct 19 (PPI): Snail-paced progress on the decisions of Provincial Education Ministry’s Steering Committee’s meeting, despite passing 10 days, the department has not yet moved a summary to Chief Minster Sindh for the approval of abolition of Saturday leave and other important decisions, it is learnt to PPI here on Tuesday.

The steering Committee of Education Department had met on 8th October 2010 at Sindh Education Foundation’s Building, many decisions were taken in order to overcome the losses due to recent floods and to support the flood affected students of the Province.

The Steering committee had decided to move the summary to Chief Minster Sindh for the abolition of Saturday leave in order to meet the time losses of 72 days.

The committee also directed the representatives of Hyderabad Board, Sukkur Board, Mirpurkhas Board and Larkana Board to wave off the exams fees in flood affected areas. But, this decision is also pending.

During the meeting, Senior Minster for Education and Literacy Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq has directed to Secretary Education to conduct a departmental meeting in order to wave off tuition fees of all flood victim students of the province. But, No result has come out in this regard.

Committee has also enhanced the academic timings of Primary and Secondary schools of the province but no official notification has been issued yet.

When contacted, Additional Secretary (Academic and Trainings) Taj Mohammad Seelro has told the PPI that all decisions of Steering Committee are still pending due to the non-approval of minutes of meeting since last 10 days.

He disclosed that Provincial Minster for Education and Literacy has approved the minutes of meeting yesterday on Tuesday; therefore, we would make and move the summary to the Chief Minster Sindh soon.

To a question that why minutes of meeting have taken 10 days to approval, he replied that its official work process, section officer has to moved the minutes for approval from the Deputy Secretary to Secretary and in the last the Minster has to approve it that’swhy it has taken more time.

He said that we would issue the Notification of enhancing the academic timings of Schools and would contact representatives of Educational boards soon in order to pursue the committee’s decisions.

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