Without education

The majority of public schools lack basic facilities, including clean drinking water and proper furniture. An example of this is the Government Primary School, Shah Faisal Colony, which has no roofs. There are many other public schools whose infrastructure is beyond dilapidated. Many schools have no furniture in classrooms, and lack teaching staff, toilets, clean drinking water and playgrounds. Clean drinking water has always been a major issue for public schools. A number of schools in the city have no water tanks and some that have them don’t have drinkable water. The water tanks are not clean and are infested with insects. A number of public school students get sick after drinking water from these tanks.

The primary education sector must be the government’s top priority. The condition of the government primary schools in the city and the quality of education being imparted there is going from bad to worse. Many government schools exist on paper only. School buildings, mostly in rural areas, have been converted to either drawing rooms for local landowners or cattle sheds while children are forced to study under trees or out in the open. The government must concentrate on the education sector and take revolutionary steps to improve it. The sector needs to be brought up to modern educational standards.

Neelam Waseem

Karachi