LARKANA, June 12: The district government has not received books for the new academic year from the Sindh Textbook Board. This was stated by the district council's education committee chairman Amir Bakhsh Gaad on Friday.
Mr Gaad said that letters and reminders had also been dispatched to the STB but in vain.
He said that the books were regularly distributed amongst 1,56,000 students in the district. Unfortunately, he said, the academic year had begun and now vacations were announced but the STB had failed to provide books.
As textbooks were not provided to the district government, the students were forced to purchase the same from the open market.
He said that if books were not distributed on time, ultimately these textbooks would be dumped in rooms of education officials or would be sold out as had been done in the past.
He urged the STB authorities to supply the textbooks so that with the expiry of vacations, these could be distributed immediately.
NAZIM: The district government has urged the chairman of National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) to cancel all written tests conducted on May 29, 30 for the recruitment of teachers.
District Nazim Khursheed Junejo in a letter to the NRB chairman on June 10 said that the district government had been sidelined in the entire activity.
The whole process, he said, was littered with, what he called, 'cheating' and 'impersonation'.
He said that the former Sindh education minister continued to interfere into the district governments affairs so much so that frequent transfers were made without consulting it.
Recently, teachers were appointed to open community model schools where outsiders were recruited that culminated into the failure of the project.
The nazim said that this kind of interference was not only affecting the devolution process but also sabotaging the educational structure.
He said that the district government should be entrusted with the job of recruitment and added if the centralization procedure continued, the target under Education For All (EFA) to ensure 100 per cent literacy rate by 2015 would not be achieved.
LECTURERS: Lecturers selected through the Sindh Public Service Commission in 1993 have alleged that they have been ignored by the departmental promotion committee.
In a signed statement they said that 513 lecturers were appointed under the prime minister's programme in 1993 but the education department had promoted those who were appointed in 1998.
They said their appeal about promotions was pending with the services and general administration department.
