Over 9,000 schools in Balochistan without drinking water, toilets
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According to provincial education department documents obtained by DawnNewsTV on Friday, 9,247 government-run schools in Balochistan have no facility for drinking water while 9,838 schools do not have toilet facilities.
Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani has taken notice of the deteriorating condition of government schools and directed all concerned deputy commissioners to visit schools and basic health units with the objective of improving social indicators.
An official handout quoting the chief minister said the deputy commissioners should submit reports to the provincial government regarding the schools they visit.
As per the documents, the province has over 13,000 primary, middle and high schools with an enrollment of 899,383 male and female students.
Additionally, the documents show that over 7,900 schools in the province do not have boundary walls, while there are 5,296 'one room, one teacher' schools.
Despite the allocation of Rs2 billion for the construction of washrooms and the provision of missing facilities to government schools, fiscal budgets for the past two years (2016-17 and 2017-18) had lapsed, a well-placed officer of the provincial planning department told DawnNewsTV.
The Balochistan government has already declared education an emergency in the province and implemented Article 25A of the Constitution to make sure that out of school children attend school.
The article states: “The state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to 16 years in such a manner as may be determined by law.” This article was incorporated into the Constitution through its 18th amendment.
Over 1 million children are still out of school in the province.
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Feb 16, 2019 05:40pm
PTI, please step forward and do something.
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Feb 16, 2019 05:57pm
An effort to make teacher's turn up ensured is equally pivotal. Authorities concerned be directed to take stock of the absent teachers as well.
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Feb 16, 2019 06:04pm
Same situation in Sindh rural areas.
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Feb 16, 2019 06:04pm
I like this CM. He has taken stock of the situation.
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Feb 16, 2019 06:07pm
What a grave, great and gigantic tragedy?
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Feb 16, 2019 06:21pm
We have failed to understand why the politicians and sadars have neglected this province to such extent? For themselves they get foreign education and stay in posh areas outside the province. Where are the education budget goes? CM took a right step but need to do a lot more. Hire foreign consultants on urgent base.
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Feb 16, 2019 06:59pm
Education Sector needs lot more Improvement and ample investment which can have revolutionary impact in National Development
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Feb 16, 2019 06:59pm
Education situation in Fata is much much worse than Baluchistan, I would like to request the govt of KPK through dawnnews to look into the worse situation of education in Fata and approve primary and middle girls schools for our village as soon as possible.
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Feb 16, 2019 07:03pm
Every schools should have clean tested drinking water. We are living in modern day and age. Pakistan isn't as poor. But our past corrupt Goverments have robbed the country. PM Imran Khan needs three terms to achieve his goal for Pakistan. One term is not sufficient.
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Feb 16, 2019 07:12pm
One hopes that even if there is not one single student in these nine thousand schools, at least all the staff is being marked present every working day including the teachers and others, and that they are being paid salaries and other benefits religiously.
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Feb 16, 2019 07:51pm
Naya Pakistan
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Feb 16, 2019 07:57pm
Those are mostly the gost schools on papers, with no teachers and no students. An easy way to syphon money from the education funds. Need an immediate action to plug this hole.
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Feb 16, 2019 08:04pm
Situation must improve....more funds and proper implementation required. Education , healthcare are basic human rights. It will also increase faith of people in government.
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Feb 16, 2019 08:28pm
EX CM Raisani, must be arrested on this and kept under lock till he returns all the budget he looted.
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Feb 16, 2019 09:08pm
Very unfortunate. While education ministry is likely to be run by provincial governments, and provinces claim their 18th. amendment autonomy, how can they explain such a neglect of public schools?
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Feb 16, 2019 10:12pm
It seems to be a new beginning; atleast the CM has taken note of the defeciencies and hopefully these will be made up aswell. Balochistan has been victim of criminally negligent governance
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Feb 16, 2019 11:46pm
As we are committed corrupt peoples this you see
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Feb 16, 2019 11:59pm
@A shah, No, it is an old Pakistan.The most backward province of the country, since its creation remains desolate,neglected & deprived from basic necessities to the population at large especially those living in the hinterland. Partially connected to national grid in1973 & to sui gas fields of Dera Bugti in 1983, still suffer from acute water shortage in both urban & rural areas.
Having a sparsely spread population of only 10 M in an area making 47% of Pakistan, & 2.3 M children remaining out of school, has not been created by 7 mo. old govt. but due to neglect, empathy & indifference of our past rulers.
With a deficit budget due to limited sources of revenue collection & getting funds from the center per NFC award based on population, it can’t produce miracles on its own.Recent revelation that past govt. conveniently kept the construction of CPEC’s southern route for Baluchistan, on paper only,need no explanation whatsoever.Baluchistan needs funds from center to change its destiny
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Feb 17, 2019 12:12am
Education is the key to open the golden door of freedom. If our future children don't get productive and prolific education ,and our children are not provided facilitated education, then how can we think about the development. Illiteracy and ignorance are the major problems faced by Balochistan. People cannot distinguish between right and wrong and they cannot play role in economic development. None of precedent government did take any fruitful step for educational reforms. The people of Balochistan are deprived of basic rights including education, water,etc. The government cannot even provide education to the children, CM saab is talking about absence of water in schools. I want to ask CM whether he has visited the schools. There is no action only words by the politicians. Education is the monopoly of rich people in Balochistan. I really feel uneasy about educational condition of Balochistan.
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Feb 17, 2019 12:17am
And fresh drinking water can be brought to school in a bottle by the students No toilets in school. But no toilets! No wonder , Pakistani girls’ enrolment in schools is poor. It is not good for the country!
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Feb 17, 2019 02:06am
What the hell is going on, the politicians know very well if we provide the education for Pakistani people they will never vote again as simple as that.
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Feb 17, 2019 05:59am
A cheap and workable solution to install such toilets in rural Baluchistan for school children, is building 2 -3 compartments measuring 6' x 8' with 2' x 6' door, having a squat type WC connected through 4" PVC pipe to a 4' dia. by 6' deep perforated prefabricated soakage pit. This soakage pit installed into the ground should have 6" gravel pack all around.
A water pipe connection be provided to the laterine tap through a roof installed small water storage tank filled with water from reverse osmosis system turning saline water to potable water supply. Toilet users have to employ hand filled bowl of water to flush WC after use. The system will work on its own and will require maintenance in form of digested sludge removal manually from soakage pit every 3 years.
These laterines will costs few grands, can be constructed within days & will solve existing issue of the school going children at minimal construction & maintenance costs by using local labor & material in most of the cases.
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Feb 17, 2019 07:39am
Where is education department if commissioner has to go and see schools!
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Feb 17, 2019 07:56am
The most of primary schools in south punjab having only one teacher, or two and children are studying in joining all classes as one or two.
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Feb 17, 2019 09:04am
Reading; Writing; Dehydration; And deficating in the woods... Leaves little time to
study mathematics! Pitiful way to treat kids.
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
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Feb 17, 2019 09:12am
Underground water in most part of Baluchistan is saline. A reverse osmosis system using a reverse osmosis pump with membrane material of polyamide thin film composite (TFC) coupled with a permeate pump operating on solar energy panel can produce 10-23 gal of clean water daily.
The above RO system make water slowly, using a storage tank to hold until needed. As water fills the tank, air compresses and creates pressure to push the water out. The system uses an automatic shut off valve to stop inflow when the tank reaches 50.67% of incoming water pressure. The RO pump coupled with a permeate pump which stores brine water headed to the drain by using it to create energy, pushes more water into the tank, alleviating its pressure and allows more water to fill the tank and results in increasing output of clean water through RO membrane due to enhanced efficiency of system.
The RO system is portable, using solar energy, it can be installed easily. Is low in maintainance & with no energy cost
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Feb 17, 2019 10:21am
Very sad. Government must seriously invest in this sector as education is the only key to open doors of progress and prosperity which is needed more in Balochistan than other provinces.
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Feb 17, 2019 12:51pm
Major problems of schools in Balochistan:
1. Incompetent teachers mainly enrolled on political basis.
2. Most of Enrolled teachers have fake degrees.
3. Ghost teachers are there who never exist and their salaries are collected by bureaucrats specially in education department.
4. Absent teachers who are doing other jobs in Karachi, Quetta & middle east but are getting regular pay from government.
5. Cheating is a very normal feature in board exams to get passed which is fully supported by teachers.
6. School budgets are issued but never spend on schools. Head masters use that budget for their own use and also give shares to bureaucrats sitting in government offices.
7. 90% of schools are without water, furniture and electricity.
PURE DESTRUCTION OF PAKISTANI YOUTH IN PROGRESS
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Feb 17, 2019 04:25pm
@Gordon D. Walker, Mr. walker most of Baluchistan being desert having an arid climate, where temperatures in summers are 120 degree F, when you could easily fry an egg on any asphalted surface, I wish there would have been any woods. The women & children invariably travel miles together every morning to carry few utensils filled with polluted water from rainfilled ditches, a source of drinking water for cattle too. Having worked in the hinterland, I have used this water where one could see blood sucking leeches & other insects dead or alive swimming, after cloth filtration & subsequent boiling.
With lack of education & health facilities coupled with mass awarenes program, most of these nomadic people living on livestock & sparse rainfed irrigation of areable lands, are suffering due to prevalent Hepatitis B & C, amoebic blood dysentery, & other waterborn diseases with high infant mortality rates. This being ongoing, is a cradle to grave situation for many of these unfortunate people.
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Feb 18, 2019 12:23am
@Zafar ahmed, - "The most of primary schools in south punjab having only one teacher, or two and children are studying in joining all classes as one or two."
That explains all.
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