Daily Times

KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that he was trying to improve the education system over all right from primary to the university level and to also make the boards efficient in taking examination and declaring the results. “I know there are a lot of complications in the educational system working in public sector but my government is taking drastic measures to improve it.”

He said this while talking to media at Dawood Foundation Public School at Bahadurabad where he went to visit a Science Exhibition organized on Friday.

He said that he had declared emergency in education sector with the objective to improve performance of schools, colleges and universities operating in public sector along with developing communication skills of teaching staff. “Yes, there are some important positions vacant in the universities, boards and directorates which would be filled shortly,”

Only punctuality of teaching staff in their schools was not enough but their capacity building is required badly. We have to inculcate their willingness to involve themselves in the teaching process for which civil society, our educationalist and the media has to play their respective role vigorously,” he said.

“Once NJV was a top class school where leading politicians and lawyers like Hafeez Pirzada and others received education but now we are working to restore its previous educational glories,” he said.

The chief minister was received by Chairman Engro and Dawood Foundation Mr Hussain Dawood when he reached their Foundation school at Bahadurabad.

He visited the stalls set up by students for the Science Exhibition in the school and also the stalls of 28 different companies set up in the courtyard of the school. He showed interest at a stall where coal energy was being generated. He also showed his great interest in solar-energy car. The chief minister was told that the company can produce buses for public transport on solar energy. “This would be very good in controlling the environmental pollution of the city.

The children of the school got mixed up with the chief minister and took their selfees with him and received autographs on their books and copies.