KARACHI: Syed Sardar Ali Shah, Sindh’s minister for education and literacy, and secretary school education Qazi Shahid Pervaiz on Monday ordered the hiring of teachers in all private schools in the province so that Sindhi language can be widely taught.

The director general, directorate of inspection of private schools Dr Mansoob Hussain Siddiqui, has also sent letters to private schools that are not following the orders to immediately make Sindhi a compulsory subject.

It may be mentioned here that according to Form B of the Sindh Private Educational Institutions (Regulations and Control) Rules 2005, all educational institutions are required to teach children the Sindhi language. The order had come into effect after the Sindh Assembly passed a resolution, making Sindhi mandatory in schools from class three to nine.

Currently, Sindhi is being taught in all schools following the Matric system but schools following the Cambridge system are not teaching the language.

Dr Siddiqui said that all private schools that have not included Sindhi in either the syllabus or examinations are depriving their students of learning their provincial language. Therefore they have been requested to include Sindhi as a subject in the General Certificate of Education (GCE) examinations. A team has been formulated to look into the implementation of the orders issued.

Published in Dawn, September 25th, 2018