PTI MPA stated that education for 2.3 million children in Sindh will cease after the fifth grade

An opposition MP told the Sindh Provincial Assembly on Saturday that 2.3 million children in the province had interrupted their education after passing the fifth grade.

Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf Rabia Azfar Nizami stated in a general discussion on the newly submitted Sindh budget in the House of Representatives that the literacy rate in Sindh is even lower than in Balochistan.

She said that as many as 100,000 children in the province were used to beg.

The opposition MPA lamented that even though several years have passed, the e-learning program in Sindh has not yet reached its infancy. She added that in the past eight years, public schools in Sindh have not purchased furniture.

PTI MPA stated that there are 29 teacher training institutions in Sindh, but only two of them are operating, adding that there are almost no education standards in Sindh.

She suggested setting up a licensing agency in Sindh Province to check the qualifications of teachers every three years. She claimed that the examination committee in Sindh has not yet received the funds needed by the government because the chief minister did not have time to respond to the committee’s letter on this issue.

Moazzam Abbasi, a member of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), said that his hometown of Larkana does not have a wastewater discharge system and that sewage is mixed with subsoil water for human consumption.

He said that there has never been a master plan for upgrading the city of La Cana. He believes that if Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, chooses to participate in the next general election in Lakana, he will have to face difficult times because of the city’s poor public conditions.

PTI MPA Arsalan Taj stated that the recent budget speech by the Chief Minister of Sindh is nothing but a bunch of lies. He added that the Sindh provincial government failed to levy taxes in the current fiscal year and its revenue was reduced by Rs 102 billion from the previous year.

He claimed that the Sindh provincial government faces only a 9% shortage in federal revenue transfers, but its own tax shortage has increased to 30%.

Taj said that Sindh’s own income curve has been declining year by year. He said that the agricultural tax levied in Sindh is only 410 million rupees, compared with 850 million rupees for traffic fines alone.

He said that Sindh only levied 190 million rupees for land income and 990 million rupees under general sales tax on services.

GDA MPA Arif Mustafa Jatoi stated that Sindh Bank has become a loss-making entity in the province because the government pays 2 billion rupees a year to overcome its fiscal deficit. He claimed that cronies of the ruler of Sindh were involved in embezzling the public funds of Sindh Bank.

He urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to order an investigation into the dark affairs of Sindh Bank.

GDA legislators stated that the achievements of the Sindh provincial government in the field of education are nothing more than the construction of school buildings. He claimed that none of the successful candidates for the recent Elite Central Advanced Service Examination belonged to Sindhi.

He asked the government to announce at least one ambulance for his hometown, otherwise he would not participate in the rally and continue to stand up to register his protest.

To this end, Sindh Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla (Mukesh Kumar Chawla) proposed to GDA MPA that if he wants, he can bring an ambulance outside the House of Representatives to pick him up.

Subsequently, the deputy speaker ordered the microphones of opposition members to be turned off, causing a commotion.

PTI MPA Raja Azhar said that his public school in Karachi is in poor condition.

The House of Representatives will continue its general debate on the new provincial budget on the third day of Monday.