EDUCATION is the only way through which we can move on to the path of prosperity. But, unfortunately, in Pakistan, particularly in rural areas of Sindh, the education ministry has been a failure. In rural areas of Sindh there are a large number of primary schools which are being used either as ‘autaqs’ or as cattle pens for the last many years by sardars, waderas and the land mafia. These people never want the children of a common man to get education as it might make them vulnerable. They feel that if a poor man gets education, he would know his rights and be able to defy the feudal lords.
Ironically, teachers also act on the directives of these landlords in order to keep the masses deprived of the right of education.
As a result of this conspiracy, many children belonging to poor families wander in the streets and waste their time sitting at various places throughout the day, while the middle and the upper class educate their children in well-reputed schools far from their villages and beyond the approach of poor children.
I would like to ask the government why these children are being punished for being poor. Why they are being deprived of their basic right to education.
Pakistan is considered a backward country only because of low literacy rate.
I request all those who are concerned with the education sector to take necessary measures for increasing the literacy rate, especially in rural Sindh, to save our young generation from the darkness of illiteracy.
NISAR AHMED Khairpur Mirs
