construction of 120 schools damaged by 2010 floods and $74 million for community mobiilisation programme, Sindh Reading Programme and Capacity Development of Education Department Programme.
Khuhro mentioned that that out of 120 schools 38 were under construction in Khairpur, Sukkur and Larkana.
He said the CIDA project meant to strengthen teacher training institutes has almost been completed.
Khuhro said that with the Japanese assistance 58 schools were being up-graded from primary Girls Schools to Elementary Schools in 12 districts.
Talking about EU Technical Assistance, he said of the total grant amounting 30 million euros for curriculum development the first tranche of 10 million was likely to be transferred to Sindh government by April 2015.
Among others, Sindh Minister for Finance Syed Murad Ali Shah and secretary of the department were also present at the meeting.
Schools facilities
The Sindh Education Department is running a three-year programme for provision of missing facilities in educational institutions under which some 10,000 schools would benefit.
Sindh Senior Minister for Education Nisar Khuhro stated this on Monday, while responding to queries of the concerned lawmakers during question hour at the provincial assembly.
He said that government’s educational institutions were facing various issues like disconnection of electric supply and the ministry was trying its best t to resolve these problems.
Khuhro informed the house that some 43,000 government primary schools had been functioning, which accounted for 90 percent of government-run educational institutions in the province while the rest were elementary, secondary, higher secondary schools and colleges.
He said that there were 131 government colleges in Karachi alone out of total 269 in the province while there were only 20 other colleges in the province and stressed the need for establishing more institutions in the province.
Khuhro said after the 18th Amendment and devolution of education subject to the provinces, the Sindh’s department had started revision of school education curriculum.
“The Sindh Textbook Board has made revised textbooks for Class I to IV during the academic year 2013-14. Revision of textbooks from Class-V to Class-VIII had also been made during the academic year 2014-15. The revision of textbooks is an ongoing process.”
He mentioned that the Sindh School Education Standards and Curriculum Act-2014 has been enacted in the province to provide maintenance of school education standards and supervision of curriculum, textbooks, and assessment process for improving quality of education.
In addition, he went on, the Education and Literacy Department has notified the Sindh Curriculum Implementation Framework-2014 whose objective is to outline implementation strategies with regard to its dissemination, learning material development, teacher education, assessment techniques, and feedback mechanism.
The education minister said the authorities had also introduced a number of steps and policies for curbing use of unfair means in examinations.