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Twenty one Hundreds eighty one Ghost schools in Sindh
« on: September 13, 2013, 09:48:23 AM »
Twenty one Hundreds eighty one Ghost schools in Sindh
Report presented to SHC says 524 schools have been encroached across the province
Karachi :September 13: The Sindh High Court (SHC) was told on Thursday that 4,540 schools in the province were not functioning properly and the number of ghost schools was 2,181.
Of the 48,227 schools in Sindh, 524 had been encroached, the court was told.
The statistics were part of a report presented to a division bench at a hearing of a petition.
The report paints a gloomy picture of the state of education in Sindh, which according to the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child has the worst infrastructure of schools.
The petition was filed by Islam Hussain, who sought the issuance of an injunction to the government to introduce free and uniform education in the country.

 

The petitioner said the government-run schools and colleges were in a dilapidated condition due to lack of proper infrastructure. He said qualified teachers were not available in schools while hundreds of schools had been declared ghost.

 

The court heard that private schools had different syllabi and charged higher fees that could not be afforded by the poor and middle class people. It was further told that private schools were running like an industry and creating distinguished classes in society, which led to deprivation.

 

According to the petitioner, the Objectives Resolution of the constitution ensures the principle of equality among the citizens, while Article 37 guarantees that the state shall provide education, end illiteracy and provide compulsory secondary and higher education to every citizen.

 

He asked that the same syllabus and textbooks should be introduced in all education institutions of the country without any discrimination, well- educated and qualified teachers appointed in school and colleges, and basic infrastructure in government educational institutes provided.

 

The consolidated report on the condition of schools in the province was placed on record by the high court registrar in compliance with court directives. It was prepared by the district and sessions judges of the province.

 

According to the report, 49 ghost schools are in Karachi’s District South, eight in District East, 12 in District West and three in District Malir, while 30 schools in District East and four in District West are not working.

 

Twenty schools in the city have been declared encroached by judicial officers.

 

The report says the worst state of schools was in the Thatta district, where 883 schools are not functioning, followed by Tharparkar (Mithi) with 858 such schools, Shaheed Benazirabad 202, Umerkot 755, Jamshoro 145, Shikarpur 270, Kashmore-Kandhkot 271, Nausheroferoz 195, Jacobabad 328, Ghotki 189 and Mitiari 137.

 

Fourteen ghost schools exist in Thatta, 27 in Hyderabad, 71 in Jamshoro, 294 in Badin, 24 in Mirpurkhas, 253 in Sanghar, 558 in Shaheed Benazirabad, 271 in Dadu, 269 in Kambar Shahdatkot, 57 in Shikarpur, 191 in Jacobabad, 48 in Ghotki and 3 in Tando Allahyar.

 

The lowest rate of school-going children is 20 percent in District Malir, and the highest of 78.63 percent is in the Jacobabad district.

 

The rate of school-going children in District South is 40.6 percent, 33.13 percent in District East, 31.15 percent in District West, 47.73 percent in District Central.

 

The division bench, headed by Justice Nadeem Akhtar, took the consolidated report on record.

 

Additional Advocate General Miran Mohammad Shah sought time from the court to ascertain what orders had been passed by the Supreme Court because a similar report was forwarded to the apex court for consideration.

 

The court directed the additional advocate general to place the latest position through a statement to be filed within 15 days.

 

Pakistan has the world’s second highest rate of out-of-school children. Almost 25 million children are currently out of school in Pakistan, while seven million of them have yet to receive some form of primary schooling, according to the report titled ‘The State of Pakistan’s Children Report 2011’, prepared by Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child.
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