KARACHI, March 23: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association on Thursday welcomed the Sindh government’s decision to revoke the composite examination system of classes 9th and 10th, and demanded the resignation of the Sindh Education Minister, Dr Hamida Khuhro.

In a joint statement, SPLA leaders Prof Syed Riyaz Ahsan, Prof Liaquat Aziz Solangi, Prof Manzoor Hussain Chishti, Prof Aga Khalid Pathan, Prof Ayub Mari, Prof Athar Hussain, Prof Iftikhar Azam and Prof Mohsin Raza Bhatti lauded the decision taken by the Sindh government to revoke the composite exams policy.

They hoped the decision would salvage the already deteriorating education system in the province.

They demanded of the Sindh Education Minister, Dr Hamida Khuhro, to tender her resignation following the Sindh cabinet’s decision of revoking the system of composite examinations for classes 9th and 10th, as was proposed by her.

They said the decision of the cabinet was a distrust of the Sindh government over the policies of Sindh education minister.

Quoting from the book of former chairman of the Sindh University’s History Department, Dr Mubarak Ali, the SPLA leaders said: “Dr Hamida Khuhro never did justice with students and always acted against their interests.”

They accused Hamida of harming the education system in province.

They said that a test for recruitment of teachers had been conducted in the past, in which around 300,000 candidates had appeared and Rs10 were charged from each candidate as test fee.

They charged that none of the candidate was given a post, while the funds collected as test fee were bungled by the high-ups of the education department.

They alleged that last year the examination session was postponed in Sindh province because the education minister wanted to get the textbooks published through a particular favourite party. And due to this, male and female students of the Sindh province could not get admission to federal educational institutions.

Criticizing what they called corruption in the education department’s mismanagement, they appealed to the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court to take a suo moto notice in this regard.—PPI