Pakistan and Education
CHOUDARY PERVAIZ ELAHI to tell a large gathering that he opened some colleges in Mandi Bahaud din and Shahbaz Sharif closed them.
In a report, it is told that almost 30% of the budget allocated for education is not used this year.
The budget for the future is not used and all other activities are in full swing. Government is taking loans and aids for other things but the available budget for education is not used. Why? No one knows.
“To look into the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow’s world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children.” These are the words of Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Everyone talks about children that they are the future of the country, the future of the nation but don’t care about them. This carelessness shows our interest in future. What can we hope for our future?
What our leaders want to give our children? Why they will take care of our future? As their future is safe their future is not in Pakistan.
In a newspaper report It is stated that (June 05) Describing education as the single most important factor for alleviating poverty, the Pakistan Economic Survey 2009-2010 says that public expenditure in the sector declined to a paltry 2 per cent of the gross domestic product during the fiscal year from 2.5 per cent of the GDP in 2006-07.(the news)
The public sector expenditure on education in other countries of the region is 2.6 per cent of the GDP in Bangladesh, 3.2 per cent in Nepal, 3.3 per cent in India, 5.2 per cent in Iran and 8.3 per cent in the Maldives. (UNESCO Report 2009)
The situation in Pakistan is budget allocated to the education sector 2.5 per cent of the GDP in 2006-07, 2.47 per cent in 2007-08, 2.1 per cent in 2008-09 and 2 per cent in 2009-10 and the more bad thing is that this budget is not used in the whole year.
Whereas the situation of education facilities in the country is that a large number of schools lack basic infrastructure - 37.7 per cent of the schools up to the elementary level don’t have boundary walls, 33.9 per cent lack drinking water facility, 37 per cent don’t have latrines and 60 per cent are without electricity.
In 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a magnificent document, concerning the Rights of the Child. It ensures the right of every child to live in peace, health, and dignity
Pakistan is a signatory of this document but what are we doing?
We are ruining our future with our own hands.
Today is for tomorrow; every child is for the future.
Lastly a poem by a Chilean poet.
We are guilty of many errors and faults,
But our worst crime is abandoning children,
Neglecting the fountain of life.
Many things we need can wait, the child cannot.
To the child, we cannot answer, “Tomorrow.”
The child’s name is Today!
But our worst crime is abandoning children,
Neglecting the fountain of life.
Many things we need can wait, the child cannot.
To the child, we cannot answer, “Tomorrow.”
The child’s name is Today!
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