Private schools can’t be allowed to set their own rules: Khuhro

HYDERABAD: Senior Sindh Minister for Information, Education and Literacy Development Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that private educational institutions would not be allowed to set their own rules and action will be taken if any organisation will cross its limits.
The enhancement in school fee announced by the private educational institution is unjustified and it would not be allowed, said the minister while talking to “Meet the Press” Programme of the Hyderabad Press Club on Thursday. He, however, said that the provincial government is ready to address all genuine complaints of the owners of private educational institutions.
The objective of nationalising the educational institutions by Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was to implement equal education system in the country, however, the PPP later decided to allow the private sector to come forward in the field of education aim to improve the educational standard.
Besides free education in the government educational institutions, the minister said that free of costly syllabus is also being provided to the students. However, the institutions imparting O-Level, A-Level, Cambridge and Oxford education have their own issues. Despite the fact, the minister maintained that no private educational institution has the right to enhance its fees beyond the capacity or take own decisions.
The minister informed that he is going to hold meetings with the owners of private educational institutions and the office bearers of private schools association where the important decisions are expected.
About the ghost schools in Sindh, the minister said that when the PPP government came into power, it was highly propagated the existence of over 5,000 ghost schools in the province. However, when the PPP reviewed the numbers of schools, it found 1,100 closed schools.
There is no existence of 86 schools, which were established in a village of Tharparkar by former Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Raheem and 90 schools set up in a union council of Tando Muhammad Khan, he said and appealed to the media not to defame the education department of the province.
The minister informed that the present government had appointed 16,000 junior and secondary school teachers through the NTS while eight thousand more school teachers will be appointed soon.
Similarly, the government has opened 2,700 closed schools and making efforts to reopen the remaining closed schools.