The Sindh High Court has once again ordered that under the Provincial Act 2013, private schools should provide free education to 10% of deserving and poor children, otherwise, the registration of violating institutions should be cancelled.

On the occasion of the hearing of the case, it has ordered the effective implementation of the free education program for deserving children studying in private schools under the Free and Compulsory Education Act 2014.  The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has passed the law to provide free education to poor children in 2017. Balochistan Province Education I have been left far behind, where the education rate is the lowest due to poverty and backwardness and the number of schools is like counting on the fingers.

The literacy rate in Azad Kashmir is 76%, which the government aims to raise to 86%. About Gilgit-Baltistan.  It is often heard that the literacy rate there is 100%. According to the latest statistics, there are currently more than 2.62 million children in the country who have either not seen the form of school or poverty has not allowed them to go beyond the first or second grade. This situation is a moment of concern for the powerful circles of the country. The fact is that there are laws in the country, but there is a lack of effective implementation. It is necessary to find the weak aspects in these laws, which are taken advantage of by the corrupt government officials and the frivolous. Private school owners are taking education as a mere source of income.  The fool-proof measures of checks and balances should be legalized, in which opportunistic elements along with their facilitators should be held accountable. With these steps we can remove the educational backdwardness.

Every government in the past has felt the need to remove the educational backwardness from the country, but until today it could not go beyond a dream.  Successive governments have failed to address the education crisis in the country. Though the current government has brought a program to implement the educational emergency with economic reforms, yet it remains to be seen how serious it is in redressing the educational woes of the society.   Like  the previous government, the current rulers have  also expressed their commitment to bring down the school dropout rate to the minimum level by providing opportunities to every child to complete their education, with the encouragement of scholarships. And the program of giving other privileges is being introduced. 

For this, technology will be integrated into our educational program under a comprehensive plan. The educationists have termed it a good vision for the beloved country with a population of 25 million in the light of the experiences of China and many other countries, which after consideration from all angles, it needs to be implemented in a comprehensive manner without delay. As a matter of fact, literacy is as a basic human need and a constitutional right, and the purpose of achieving it is not just to read and write, but to become empowered, economically sound decisions.  It is equally important to do and play an active role in the society.  In the context of the bitter reality that currently around two and a half million children in the country are deprived of going to school due to the very low financial condition of their parents, who are deprived of education. According to the government program, providing food to children at school is important.

The private sector should also come forward in this work and ensure free delivery of all necessities to poor children. It is a sad fact that  2 crore 62 lakh 6 thousand 520 children are out of schools across the country.  This disclosure was made in a written report submitted by the Ministry of Education to the National Assembly. The Ministry of Education presented the details in the House according to which 1 crore 7 lakh 74 thousand 890 boys and girls between 5 to 9 years are out of school.  And a whopy 49 lakh 72 thousand 949 children (Male) and 58 lakh 1 thousand 941 girls (Female) are deprived of education. 49 lakh 35 thousand 484 children between the age of 10 to 12 years are deprived of middle education. The education sector right now it is faced with huge crisis due to lack of funds  at almost every level due to economic crisis that has badly impacted almost every sector.

Though the previous coalition government had promised remedial steps for bringing education back on track, but on the ground there seem to be no steps intact which can help revive the fortunes of the education sector across. The irony is that education has never been a priority of our successive governments, but during the last few years, it has become extreme subject of neglect, particularly during the PTI regime. So a lot  needs to be done in this sector. Last year, it was said that plans regarding privatization of schools are on the anvil. In fact, it is not a welcome move. It means that children who were given an almost free education in public schools will now be charged from their parents the hefty fees charged in private schools, where only the children of the rich can enroll in the schools. This project will lead to the deprivation of education to a large number of children across the country. f schools are privatized, children of the poor will never go to school and thus our literacy rate will go down. The problem is not only the children and their education, in case of privatization teachers will also suffer from a huge problem. They will not get the only economic support of their old age i.e. pension, and for me it sounds to be extreme of cruelty and unjust.

As a matter of fact, we could not find teachers, who run factories, or do they belong to this privileged class, who are provided with immense financial facilities during their employment but whatever salary and benefits they get as Govt school teachers and even after retirement, their condition is not good. Govt school teachers are like the majority of Pakistanis, who only get two meals a day, for God's sake don't take these two meals a day from them!