Karachi: Senior Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq has said Sindh Education department has been playing its vital role in promotion of education in the province and basic reforms in education sector have increased literacy rate.
He was talking to the media at Karachi Airport after participating in Waseela-e-Taleem programme under Benazir Income Support programme in Islamabad.
He said that during dictatorship the education system had been destroyed intentionally like it was done in other provinces as well.
Present democratic government, he said, following vision of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto had launched unmatched Programme of Waseela-e-Taleem and through this poor and needy families would be provided scholarships.
The minister said girls students were being given Rs.2500 per year while in certain districts this amount was Rs3500 with additional wheat and cooking oil to motivate their parents towards education and these stipends were being provided from class 6th to class 10th.
He added the girls students from class one to class five would be a given one thousand rupees as stipends soon and these measures had increased ten percent literacy rate among girls students.
Mazhar said that an institution had been established to train the teachers in order to enhance quality education in Sindh.
He opined that history would never forgive those who destroyed very fabric of education system in the province. He said that Sindh Education department’s steps had brought overall four percent increased in literacy rate in the province.
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