KARACHI: The newly-formed Sindh Urban Graduate Forum (SUGF) highlighting the importance of education at all level has advised parents and guardians to make a habit of counseling their children regarding career building. The speakers at the moot appealed to the SUGF graduates to come forward and provide help to the body by promoting quality education to make a literary society. This would help a lot to improve quality of education in the society. At present, we feel that women are being considered as a secondary segment of the society. This mindset should be changed as by involving women new horizons would definitely emerge, they added. The vice president of SUGF, Nadia Rehman said, “We are striving hard to shape the mind of the youth – both men and women- to produce educated society”. She said that women had been playing a vital role as a mother, sister and wife and they should come forward and educate themselves. On the occasion, the General Secretary of SUGF, Dr Rizwan Ullah Khansaid that as a nation, we never thought of our future as when flood arrives at our doors we ran for solutions. In the last 20 years, the city of Karachi had faced too much transformation of the population that has created pressure on amenities of the metropolis, he added. Education has become a lucrative business and an average family could not afford to send their children to a private school due to high fee and other expenses, he pointed out. In the absence of quality education at schools and colleges, there is another trend of joining private coaching centres by the students. No one is interested in giving education to students at all. “Our aim is to revive old glories and customs of Karachi that include respect for elders and educate youths of the city,” he said. He added that half of the residents face problem of traffic jams as they spend more time on city roads. This also creates psychological issues. We are a developing country but going backwards, he continued. President of SUGF, Dr Badar Ul Kalam said there was a wrong perception of youths of Karachi that they are terrorists and criminals. We want to change this mindset. The concept behind our cause is to encourage youths for quality education and secure their future, he added.