HYDERABAD, March 18: Former Sindh Governor Moinuddin Haider has regretted that recommendations made at seminars by eminent scholars and experts are seldom implemented.

Speaking at a seminar on “Economic and Social Problems of Sindh and Their Solution”, organized by the Sindh Historical, Educational and Cultural Society on Monday, he said bureaucrats sitting in Islamabad and Karachi usually ignored these recommendations.

Expressing concern over the low standard of education, Mr Haider said the federation and the provinces spent between 70 to 72 billion rupees on education per annum but the desired results could not be achieved.

He said retired teachers and government servants should volunteer for increasing the literacy rate and should go to rural areas and teach children there.

In his presidential speech, Dr Nabi Bux Khan Baloch said Sindh was in the grip of economic and social problems.

He said the problems could be resolved if everyone performed his duties honestly.

The vice-chancellor, University of Sindh, Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, said 2,175 schools had been established in the province for which 12,000 teachers were required.

He, however, regretted that due to ban on employment, teachers could not be appointed, and consequently many schools were lying closed.

Earlier, speaking at a reception hosted by District Nazim Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman and Latifabad Taluka Nazim Abdul Jabbar Khan in Latifabad, Mr Haider praised the new devolution system and said assembly members should avoid any interference in the system.

He said the objective of the devolution plan was to empower the people and resolve their problems at their doorsteps.

The former interior minister said the new system should be allowed to run without any interference and impediment.

Referring to funds provided to assembly members, he suggested the members should spent all the funds on the development of their areas under a master plan.

In his opinion, the devolution system was a nursery for politicians and it was through this system that politicians reached assemblies.

The former Sindh governor said it was the duty of elected representatives to ensure the supremacy of law and not to support any criminal.

HELP LINE: Sindh chief secretary K. B. Rind has said help-line 15-Madadgar should be established in every town and city of the province.

He was presiding over a law and order meeting at the circuit house here on Sunday.

He expressed his satisfaction over the anti-bandit operation being carried out in Thatta.

He directed the police to ensure the compliance of traffic rules.