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40pc Chhachhro children not attending school, says report
« on: August 28, 2014, 01:02:55 PM »
40pc Chhachhro children not attending school, says report
HYDERABAD:28 August: Forty per cent children of schoolgoing age do not go to schools in Chhachhro taluka of Tharparkar district where 59 per cent of parents are unaware of their children’s right to education, it was disclosed in a report launched on Wednesday at a programme.
Discussing the report, the speakers expressed concern over falling standard of education in the rural areas of Sindh and said two systems of education existed in Sindh, one was for the rich and the other for the poor.
They were speaking at the launching of the report regarding standard of education in Chhachhro taluka.
The report was prepared by the Democratic Commission for Human Development. Additional Director of Education Hyderabad Farasat Shah Sultana said situation of education was not only alarming in Chhachhro, but in all the rural areas of Sindh.

She said the Sindh education minister and secretary endeavoured for improving falling standard of education, but the present situation indicated that no one had reached the root cause of the problem.

She said policies were framed at the higher level and not locally. She said that with the commitment to run schools in rural Sindh, girls and boys of those areas could be appointed for running the educational institution.

Syed Hakim Ali Shah said conditions were contrasting in rural and urban area and the gape had widened hugely. He said it was a tragedy that values of society had changed, adding that 60 per cent people lived in rural areas which were neglected. He called for an end to difference between educational standards of rural and urban areas.

Tanvir Jehan of the host organisation said Chhachhro was a big taluka with less number of schools. She said the education system was almost non-existent there because 48 per cent schools were working and 47 were closed.

She said that of the existing schools’ buildings, 14 per cent of girls schools, 28 per cent of boys and 37 other schools, including middle, high and higher secondary, were in better shape.

She said 52 per cent schools were in dilapidated condition and 11 per cent buildings were dangerous while 90 per cent schools did not have laboratories.

She said 40 per cent of children did not go to schools in the taluka due to poverty and 59 per cent parents were unaware of right to education of their children.Published in Dawn, August 28th, 2014
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