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HYDERABAD, June 11: People’s Party Parliamentarians MNA Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur has said that thousands of people of Manjhand taluka are being made to suffer to please one individual by shifting the Manjhand taluka headquarters to Sann.
He was speaking at the hunger strike camp set-up by the activists of Manjhand Bachayo Committee on Shahra-i-Liaquat in Kotri on Monday. They are demanding the shifting back of the taluka headquarters to Manjhand.
Mr Talpur said that the Sindh government’s decision to transfer the taluka headquarters was illegal as it had neither issued any advertisement nor sought the opinion of the people in this regard. He said that whenever a PPP government came into power, it will shift the taluka headquarters back to Manjhand.
He regretted that the protest by thousands of people had entered 68th day but the government had failed to take notice of it. The MNA said that he would raise the issue on the floor of the National Assembly.
Speaking on the occasion, Manjhand Bachayo Committee chairman Saleh Memon announced that three members of the committee would start observing hunger strike unto death outside the Hyderabad Press Club on June 25.
He warned of committing self-immolation outside the Karachi press club if the government did not shift back the taluka headquarters to Manjhand.
EDUCATION: Expressing concern over deteriorating standard of education in the country, the speakers at a seminar have said that 35 million children are deprived of education in the country.
The seminar on "Child labour and bonded labour" was organized by the Society for Protection of Rights of the Child (SPARC) at the press club here on Monday.
The regional manager, SPARC, Akhtar Baloch, Waseem Ahmed and Shafiq Ahmed Kandhro said that private organisations had taken the benefit of deteriorating standard of education in government institutes and turned education into a lucrative business. As a result, they said, it had almost become impossible for a common man to provide proper education to his children.
They said that those children, who were working in factories to supplement their family income, remained deprived of education. They said that neither the government nor the major social welfare organizations were doing anything for the education of under-privileged children.
They pointed out that 300,000 children remain deprived of education only in Larkana district where 130 schools were lying closed due to inefficiency of the education department.
In Nawabshah district, they added, 334 schools remained non-functional and same was the case in other districts of Sindh.
They said that 29,411 children were languishing in different jails of Punjab, Sindh and the NWFP. They demanded of the government to do something for the education of under-privileged children, including working children.
