KARACHI, April 6: The education officers of five districts have failed to furnish consolidated data pertaining to schools concerned with the termination of the deadline set for the annual census of schools in the province , i.e. March 31, said sources in Sindh education department.

Under the census, activities as planned by the Sindh Education Management Information System (Semis), the district education officers were required to consolidate data of their respective districts and forward them to their focal persons for onward communication to the Semis head office in Karachi on March 31.

Semis had provided the officers with pro formas, placing emphasis on major parameters of the census, involving public and private schools and colleges in the province. The census aimed at collecting data of students and teachers as well a availability of basic facilities and infrastructure and utilization of different funds.

An official at Semis said that the five districts which did not pass on the required data within the stipulated period were Ghotki, Larkana, Jacobabad, Dadu and Shikarpur.

The director of Semis, Prof Ilyas Soomro, told Dawn that a meeting of executive district officers education had been convened on April 12, where census activities carried out by different districts would be reviewed. The officials had been asked to come up with census related data and reasons behind their improper works, he added.