- Shah says of 5,000 closed schools, 2,000 have been reopened and over 20,000 teachers recruited to run the facilities
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Sunday his government was giving utmost importance to the health and education sectors and was spending billions of rupees on them.
In his address at a public school, the chief minister said the matchless performance of the Sindh government was also evident from the spending of Rs 134.32 billion and Rs 43.583 billion under the head of non-development expenditure of the education and health sectors.
He said that work on establishment of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto University of Law was being initiated while Bilawal Bhutto Engineering College in Lyari, Govt Girls Degree College in Tando Jam, and law colleges in Sukkur and Karachi had also been planned.
The Sindh government, Shah said, completed 19 other schemes in the education sector, including establishment of a law college at Hala and construction of 137 schools in Umerkot.
He said that when the PPP government came to power, it inherited government schools in deteriorated condition, 5,000 closed schools and untrained teaching staff in functional schools.
Shah pointed out that of the 5,000 closed schools, the Sindh government managed to reopen about 2,000 schools, while the remaining 3,000 would be reopened soon as some 20,000 schoolteachers were being recruited.
The chief minister said the government had provided professional training to more than 50,000 teachers to ensure qualitative education in the province.
He said major schemes under the expansion and improvement of district headquarters hospitals programme included 10 district headquarters hospitals, up-gradation of seven taluka headquarters hospitals into district headquarters hospitals, establishment of 41 trauma centres and repair of 39 taluka hospitals.
