It took govt 63 years!

President Asif Ali Zardari by signing into law the ” Right to free and compulsory education bill” has fulfilled the dream of Shaheed Quaid to spread education to every household. This was stated by the Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq. He was presiding over a meeting of the senior officials of the education department here on Thursday.
The minister said on the occasion that acquisition of education by children in the age group of 5 to 16 is their basic right and depriving them from acquiring education would be an illegal act. He stated on the directives of President Asif Ali Zardari, the law on free and compulsory education would be got implemented strictly. Pir Mazhar pointed out that the Government of Sindh is providing free text books to students up to 12th class and the female students are being given stipend on monthly basis. The stated that steps are being taken on emergency basis for the betterment of education. The minister said that on the directives of President Asif Ali Zardari, the campuses of the Sindh University and IBA community colleges are being established for provision of higher education in far flung areas of the province. He said for the first time in the history of Sindh, girls cadet college was being established.
Teacher should nurture child like mother: Vice Chancellor of Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam University (SMIU) Dr Mohammad Ali Shaikh has said that the role of a teacher should be like a mother, who nurtures and cares her child without wishing any reward from him.
Addressing the faculty members of Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam Boys Model School and Sindh Madrasa-tuI-Islam Girls Model School on Thursday, he said a good teacher always thinks about good education of students and not for his/her own personal benefits. It has also been observed that the good and dedicated teachers have always received rewards and benefits without any demand. Dr Mohammad Ali while congratulating the 20 teachers of SMIU’s model schools, who received promotions, on the basis of the time scale policy, a few days ago, said that these teachers deserved the promotions, but due to the shortage of funds, the institution failed to take decision in this regard.
However, when SMIU received some amount after its upgradation to the level of university this year, we decided to promote our teachers, who have rendered their countable services for the quality education and betterment of the institution. Dr Shaikh said that amongst the promoted teachers, seven teachers got 19 grade, three teachers 18 grade and 10 teachers 17 grade.
“In return, the institution only demands quality teaching from them, because Sindh Madrasah possesses a high profile in the quality education before and after the partition,” the vice chancellor said. “An institution that produces the leadership, who created a new country on the map of the world, can’t be an ordinary institution,” Dr Shaikh said, adding that they had again to produce the dynamic leadership in all the fields of life.