The Sindh government has decided to delay the summer vacation of schools by a month, as well as to set up 50 new girls’ colleges across the province with the facility of hostels for working women.
These decisions were made at a meeting of the Education Department’s steering committee, presided over by Education and Literacy Minister Pir Mazharul Haq.
Education executive district officers from 23 districts of the province, examination boards’ chairmen and Oxfam representatives also attended the meeting.
Considering that floods might hit the province again between July and August this year and Ramazan would also fall between this period for three years, the participants of the meeting decided that students would have to wait until July for their summer vacation to start so that the students’ educational activities remain unaffected, and that the decision would be valid for three years.
It was also decided that 50 new girls’ colleges would be set up in different districts of the province, and this project is included in the budget of financial year 2011-12.
The education minister said that female teachers usually avoid going to rural areas, so these colleges would be constructed with hostels for teachers’ accommodation.
He said that the provincial government is giving preference to girls’ education with support from the international community.
He also said that he wanted to construct an educational complex in Karachi, but the Muttahida Qaumi Movement raised an objection over the project saying that it should not be constructed on school ground. “The project was put off because of reconciliation,” he added.
The minister said that after the 18th Amendment, education has become the right of every child between the ages of five and 16 years.
the skool shuld be open in june
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