September 17, 2007	Monday	Ramazan 04, 1428

HYDERABAD, Sept 16: District Nazim of Hyderabad, Kanwar Naveed Jamil, has urged the school management committees to play their due role in improving the standard of education and ensuring the utilisation of funds in a transparent manner. He said the district government was giving top priority to the education sector.

He was speaking to the heads of the management committees of the government schools, which have been converted into English medium, at his secretariat on Saturday.

DCO Hyderabad, Aftab Ahmed Khatri, EDO Education Professor Anwaar Ahmed Siddiqui, district focal person for education, Q.Mohammad Hakim, chairman district education monitoring committee, Yousuf Mukhtar and others attended the meeting.

Kanwar Naveed Jamil said that Islam has given us a complete code of life and stressed the need for acquiring formal as well as religious education. He said, out of a total budget of Rs3,560 million, the district government has allocated a lion’s share of Rs2,100 million to education sector alone.

He said, unfortunately, the standard of education in all the government schools of the entire country, specially Sindh province, has deteriorated due to some irresponsible teachers.