Ammar Sheikh
Despite PTI’s claimed focus on uplifting the education sector in Pakistan, the government of Punjab run by the party is failing to make an impact when it comes to managing funds meant for education sector in the province.
The Punjab School Education Department (SED) has rolled back the decision of suspension of a head teacher and a teacher whose video went viral on social media after they brought the school’s miserable state of affairs to light.
The newly-formed provincial government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Punjab presented the budget for the remaining eight months of the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 on Tuesday amid much furore by the opposition. The budget, in contrast to those presented by the previous PML-N government, showed a very different tangent in priorities.
Many government schoolteachers in Punjab got a surprise on Wednesday afternoon when they started receiving messages via social media that a new transfer policy has been put in place. Along with the messages, a detailed policy document was also circulated and shared among teachers.
The Punjab government has decided in principle to phase out several of the previous government’s schooling initiatives, with the Daanish School system and the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) likely to be the first casualties of the reform road map.