THE education system in Sindh does not cater adequately to the people’s aspirations. There are thousands of public sector schools that are not functioning for one reason or the other. Therefore, philanthropists who operate schools in rural areas of Sindh are a blessing.

In Ghotki district 40 such schools were being run tby he management of Jahangir Khan Tareen’s Ghotki Sugar Mills. The mills management selected and repaired, and reopened these schools. They appointed qualified and competent teachers to run them. These schools were functioning well for the past nine years when all of them were closed suddenly.

The alarming fall-out is that 8,000 students are in a quandary, 63 teachers are unemployed and the parents of thousands of school children are at a loss to understand what happened.

They have approached the district authorities for an explanation and are receiving flimsy excuses that there are contract issues between National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) and the sugar mills management.

This is a request to the Sindh government and the chief minister to take immediate action and reopen these institutions.

Deen Muhammad Ghoto

Ghotki

Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2018