HYDERABAD, Nov 25: The district government of Hyderabad would spend Rs1.4 billion on the promotion of education in rural areas in the current fiscal year, said District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil on Friday.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Learning Resource Centre set up by the Aga Khan Education Services (AKES) at Tando Haider, he regretted that despite huge expenditure, public sector educational institutions had failed to produce desired results.
The nazim said that indifferent and irresponsible attitude of some educational officials and teachers was to blame for the deteriorating standard of education. It was, however, an encouraging sign that some individuals and organisations were rendering their services voluntarily for the community-based schools, he said.
He praised AKES for establishing a training centre fully equipped with necessary wherewithal in Tando Haider. UC Nazim Mian Abdullah Shaikh also joined in the praise for AKES.
The nazim also laid the foundation stone for a girls’ middle school in Tando Wali Mohammad the same day. Addressing the stone-laying ceremony he feared that if the educational officers and teachers did not change their attitude, billions of rupees being spent on the promotion of education would go down the drain.
The nazim said that the district had formed an education monitoring committee to ensure that proper education was being imparted to the students.
At another function, the nazim distributed free of charge English syllabus books among the students of Mehran Girls School, Latifabad No.10 which has recently been converted into English medium school.
City Taluka Nazim Javed Jabbar, Naib Nazim Ghulam Shabbar Chishti, EDO Education Anwar Siddiqui and a large number of councillors and officials of the district government attended the function.
POISON CONTROL CENTRE: A poison control centre has been set up in the Jacobabad district hospital to cater to the needs of city dwellers and people residing in its surrounding areas, says an official handout issued by PID in Hyderabad on Friday.
The physical facilities at the centre will be provided by the provincial health department while the World Health Organisation and National Programme for National Safety have committed to provide technical support to the centre which has been set up on the initiative of Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro.
Similar poison control centres would be established in other parts of the province, the handout added.
SU: Five hundred and fifty students would receive degrees and medals at the academic convocation of the University of Sindh scheduled for December 15, said the controller of examinations of the university on Friday.
The controller told a meeting of convenors presided over by Vice-Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui that 550 students had submitted fees and applications to receive Ph.D, M.Phil, post-graduation and graduation degrees.
Eighty students who had topped in their respective departments would receive silver medals and 18 who had topped their faculties would be awarded gold medals, he said.
Nine memorial gold medals of Allama I. I. Kazi, Sindh University Alumnae, Allama Ghulam Mustafa Qasmi, Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah, Muhammad Usman Deeplai, Sardar Malik Sikandar and a gold medal on behalf of the district government would be awarded to the meritorious students of the university, he said.
He said that Ansa Khadija Daudpota cash award of Rs10,000 would go to the meritorious student of the Institute of Information Technology.
MUET: World Enformatika Society has appointed Prof. Dr. B.S. Chowdhry as member of the editorial board of International Journal of Biomedical Sciences. Mr Chowdhry is the chairman of the Department of Electronic, Telecommunication and Biomedical Engineering of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.
