LARKANA, May 26 The district government of Larkana has submitted a proposed Rs661.490 million education package with the Sindh government.

Sources told this reporter on Tuesday that a blueprint of the package had been prepared after a meeting held on April 28 at the camp office of the President House in Naudero. MNA Faryal Talpur led the meeting. Participants demanded launching of development schemes in education sector in Larkana.

They agreed to offer modern education facilities for the people of Larkana.

The authorities had been neglecting Larkana, which deserved special consideration, for the past 11 years, said a letter of District Coordination Officer Muhammed Jaffer Abbasi sent to the secretary education on May 16, 2009.

Under the proposed package 30 new units of two-roomed shelter-less schools would be constructed in the district with a cost of Rs1.917 million while 24 existing primary schools would be given the status of middle schools with a cost of Rs5.086 million.

The education works and services department had proposed for constructing a new education complex for girls at Sachal Colony and a government girls degree college in Naudero with a cost of Rs95.200 million. It was also proposed that graduate classes should be started in the existing Arts and Commerce College Larkana.

The DCO in his letter said that in each sub-division of Larkana, English medium model schools would be established with a cost of Rs36.454 million.

The proposal also suggested rehabilitation of the exiting elementary school buildings in the district.

The DCO Larkana forwarded the proposed education package to MNA Faryal Talpur and the Sindh additional chief secretary for planning and development, requesting for including it in Public Sector Development Programme (Volume-V) 2009-2010.

It was learnt that prior to this, Larkana had floated the education package, but to no avail. But major ingredients of that plan were now being implemented in Nawabshah, the sources said.