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PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF SINDH
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
LIST OF STARRED ASSEMBLY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR
FRIDAY THE 23RD SEPTEMBER, 2016.
SHORT NOTICE QUESTION GIVEN BY MR. MUHAMMAD DILAWAR QURESHI, MPA
111. Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
Whether security measures have been taken for educational institutions in Hyderabad, if so, the details thereof?
*396. MS. NAHEED BEGUM: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
Working strength of Government schools, colleges, technical/mono-technical colleges in district Sukkur?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
(Source: Annual School Census 2011-12)
District Sukkur working strength of Government Schools
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S.No.
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Level
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Functional
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Temporary
Closed
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Permanent Closed
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Level-wise
Total schools
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1.
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Primary
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1080
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49
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31
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1160
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2.
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Middle
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32
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1
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2
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35
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3.
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Elementary
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44
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1
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1
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46
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4.
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Secondary
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61
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0
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0
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61
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5.
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Higher Secondary
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9
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0
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0
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9
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Total
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1226
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51
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34
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1311
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The Taluka-wise summary of schools, enrollment and teachers reported in ASC 2011-2012 is at Annexure, placed on the Table of the House.
*556. MS. NUSRAT SEHER ABBASI: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
District-wise number of teachers absent from duties dismissed from service during 2008-2013?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
Karachi Region
As reported by Director School Education Karachi, there was no teacher dismissed from service due to absent from duty during the period from 2008 to November 2013.
Hyderabad Region
As reported by Director School Education Hyderabad, there was no teacher dismissed from service due to absent from duty during the period from 2008 to November 2013.
Sukkur Region
As reported by Director School Education Sukkur, Ms. Shazia Channa, H.S.T of district Sukkur was removed from Government service on account of rendering double service at Army Public School and College, Sukkur.
Larkana Region
As reported by Director School Education Larkana there was no teacher dismissed from service due to absent from duty during the period from 2008 to November 2013. However, disciplinary action has been taken against 594 absent teachers in accordance with the relevant rules/law.
Mirpurkhas Region
As reported by Director School Education Mirpurkhas, there was no teacher dismissed from service due to absent from duty during the period from 2008 to November 2013.
*570. MS. NUSRAT SEHER ABBASI: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
(a) Is it a fact that a Bill to provide text syllabus to students of government primary schools free of cost was passed in the Assembly;
(b) If answer to (a) above be in the affirmative, the district-wise number of schools where the students were provided the books free of cost?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
(a) That there was no bill passed from the Sindh Assembly to provide the students of primary schools with free text syllabus books. The facility of free textbooks was initiated with an executive order after getting approval from the Honourable Chief Minister Sindh from the academic year 2005-06 for primary and secondary side through RSU. In a further move the department initiated to provide books to Class XI and XII from the academic year 2010-11 and establishing of Book Banks in the Colleges for the purpose to re-use same books for three years to save the public exchequer. It was notified by the Department of Education & Literacy with the approval of Chief Minister Sindh at Annexure-I, placed on the table of the House.
(b) The district-wise list/number of sets of books provided to students from class Kachi to X, free of cost, at Annexure-II, placed on the table of the House.
*571. MS. NUSRAT SEHER ABBASI: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
District-wise number of recruitments of HSTs and PSTs made during 2008 to 2013?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
District-wise details of candidates recruited as HST, JST and PST are as under:-
S.No. District HST JST PST Total
1. Badin 54 108 151 313
2. Dadu 17 12 532 561
3. Ghotki 9 5 37 51
4. Hyderabad 57 212 308 577
5. Jacobabad 11 7 203 221
6. Jamshoro 13 24 65 102
7. Kambar@Shahdadkot9 9 187 205 401
8. Karachi 91 77 910 1078
9. Kashmore@Kandhkot8 29 84 121 234
10. Khairpur 5 14 85 104
11. Larkana 29 46 288 363
12. Matiari 4 139 101 244
13. Mirpurkhas 5 14 238 257
14. Naushero Feroze 14 13 138 165
15. Sanghar 7 4 218 299
16. Shaheed Benazirabad 5 7 207 219
17. Shikarpur 9 20 141 170
18. Sukkur 16 5 66 87
19. Tando Allahyar 17 65 45 127
20. Tando Muhammad Khan 5 45 138 188
21. Tharparkar @ Mithi 3 2 44 49
22. Thatta 2 - 114 116
23. Umerkot 13 3 86 102
Total 403 860 4386 5649
Further details regarding number of candidates passed and recruited are at Annexure, I and II, placed on the table of the House.
*646. MS. HEER SOHO: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
(a) Is it a fact that the Sindh Government has initiated Integrated Education Learning Program (IELP);
(b) If answer to (a) above be in the affirmative, the objectives of the same?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
(a) It is indeed a fact that the Sindh Government has initiated the Integrated Education Learning Program (IELP) in collaboration with the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) as the executing partner for increasing access to and improving the quality of educational (primary, elementary and secondary) services for children across the Sindh province.
(b) The main objective of the Program is to establish public private partnership for increasing access to and improving the quality of educational services provided to the children in marginalized areas of the Sindh province with support of private sector.
Sub objective include:-
· To promote long-term public-private partnership through providing per child fee subsidy to private (schools) sector in order to create greater access to education in marginalized/underserved areas of Sindh.
· To encourage private sector for helping Government to address quality based ACCESS (schooling) issue in the most underserved areas of Sindh.
· To supplement government policies via-a-vis UPE through enhancing educational facilities for out of school children and youth especially girls.
· To encourage gender quality.
· To devise viable organizational vision and institutional development for good quality innovative learning and general improvement of educational practices in community schools especially at un-served areas.
· To initiate process of transferring management of SEF assisted community based schools to NGOs who have good administrative and field related experience (where applicable).
*647. MS. HEER SOHO: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
Location-wise number of teachers training centers exist along with the details of courses being taught therein as well as number of teachers get training every year and benefit of the said training to the teachers?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
The requisite information is at Annexure, placed on the Table of the House.
*750. MR. SHEIKH ABDULLAH: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
(a) Is it a fact that the government intends to establish open university in the province;
(b) If answer to (a) above be in the affirmative, the details thereof?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
Secretary to Chief Minister for Universities & Board has informed that the matter to establish Open University in the province has not been decided as yet.
*768. MR. JAMAL AHMED: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
(a) Is it a fact that in partnership of World Bank and Sindh Government “Education Reform Program” continued during 2010-13;
(b) If answer to (a) above be in the affirmative, the district/year-wise amount disbursed?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
Timeline for the Sindh Education Reform Program (SERP) project was from 2009-2012. Second Sindh Educational Sector Project (SERP-II) is yet to be signed. The timeline for the SERP-II project is 2013 to 2016.
Sindh Education Sector Project.
The development objective of the Sindh Educational Sector Project (SERP) was to support the Government of Sindh’s Medium-Term Education Sector Reform Program which aims to increase school participation, reduce gender and rural-urban disparities, increase progression and improve the measurement of student learning. Total project cost was US$2,222 million, the development partner/donors share were US$350 million and US$38 million by World Bank and EU respectively, remaining US$1,834 million was contributed by Government of Sindh.
Second Sindh Education Sector Project.
The Project Development Objective is to raise school participation by improving sector governance and accountability and strengthening administrative systems, measure student achievement the project support the Sindh Government’s Second Sindh Education Sector Reform Program. The total cost of the project (SERP-II) is US$2600 million for which Sindh Government financing/share is US$2200 million and remaining US$400 million is financed by World Bank.
Details of expenditure incurred by Government of Sindh with development partners for the period from 2010-13 is at Annexure, placed on the table of the House.
*776. MS. SUMETA AFZAL SYED: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
Detail/ratio of trained teachers in the province during 2013 upto June?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
In-Service
S.No. Course Through TTI* PITE** Total
1. ADE*** (completed 2 years) 371 50 421
2. ADE*** (completed 1st year) 561 60 621
3. M. Ed.**** 419 50 469
4. B.Ed.***** 2012 25 2037
Total 3363 185 3548
Pre-Service
S.No. Course Through TTI* PITE** Total
1. 6 days Orientation Workshop
of Teachers Educators -- 408 408
2. One day preparation workshop. -- 30 30
Total -- 438 438
Abbreviations:
TTI* Teachers Training Institutions.
PITE** Provincial Institute of Teacher Education.
ADE*** Associate Degree in Education (2 years program)
M. Ed.**** Master of Education (one year program)
B. Ed.***** Bachelor of Education (one year program)
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*884. MS. NAILA MUNIR: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
Number of additional schools established due to 100% admission under free and compulsory education Bill, 2013?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
The work plan and implementation strategy in this regard is being prepared.
*885. MS. NAILA MUNIR: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
Number of additional schools established in Karachi under free and compulsory education Bill, 2013?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
The work plan and implementation strategy in this regard is being prepared.
*886. MS. NAILA MUNIR: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
(a) Is it a fact that private schools have to provide education free of cost to 10% children under free and compulsory education Bill, 2013;
(b) If answer to (a) above is affirmative, the number of schools implemented on it?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
(a) Yes, under Section 3(3) of this Act, “Privately owned or managed schools shall also provide free education to such students of the age of five to sixteen years at least ten percent of their actual strength of students.”
(b) The work plan and implementation strategy in this regard is being prepared.
*909. MR. ABDUL HASEEB: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
District-wise number of lower secondary/secondary schools exist in Sindh?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
The requisite information is as under:-
District Lower Secondary Secondary
Middle Elementary
Badin 102 11 62
Dadu 86 03 68
Hyderabad 68 01 77
Thatta 82 13 59
Mirpurkhas 108 10 70
Tharparkar 247 0 42
Sanghar 102 06 63
Karachi City 279 169 560
Jocababad 52 04 35
Larkana 59 02 58
Shikarpur 64 02 48
Khairpur Mirs 66 118 112
Naushero Feroze 121 29 69
Shaheed Benazirabad 81 54 75
Sukkur 23 52 61
Ghotki 96 08 33
Umerkot 87 05 48
Jamshoro 20 0 36
Matiari 21 0 48
Tando Allahyar 41 01 30
Tando Muhammad Khan 17 11 36
Kashmore 51 02 39
Kambar-Shahdadkot 50 05 46
Total 1,923 506 1,775
Source: Annual School Census 2012-13
*1123. MR. ADNAN AHMED: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
Amount of text books distributed free of cost in deserving boys & girls students from books of free of cost announced last year alongwith the amount of text books still lying in godowns?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
16.112 million textbooks were distributed free of cost to the students in all Government Schools (boys/girls) from Class I to X in the last academic year 2013-14. The balance stock in godowns of Sindh Textbook Boards is 25475.
*1338. MS. NAHEED BEGUM: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
Number of schools working under Sindh Education Foundation and Sindh Education Sector Reform Program (SERP)?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
The Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) is a semi-autonomous organization committed to educating and empowering children and communities towards social change by improving access to educational facilities. Since its establishment in 1992 as a semi-autonomous organization, the SEF endeavors have focused on bringing the light of education for the growth and development of those living in remote and disadvantaged areas of the Sindh province in Pakistan.
Today, with support from the department of Education & Literacy, Government of Sindh, SEF portfolio has expanded to a network of 2342 schools and educational centers in the underserved areas of the province making it the largest educational foundation in Pakistan.
The Foundation initiated the Promoting Private Schooling in Rural Sindh (PPRS) scheme under the Public Private Partnership Component of the Sindh Education Reform Program 2008-09 which continues to operate under SERP II 2012-2013. The project has been designed by the SEF in collaboration with the Reform Support Unit and the World Bank. The project interventions are envisaged to support establishment and management of private schools in underserved localities in 10 districts of Sindh that rank poorly along three indicators: the size of the out-of-school children population (6-10 years), distance to the nearest primary school and gender disparity in primary school participation.
The overall goal of the project is to establish public private partnerships for increasing access to and improving the quality of educational services provided to the children in marginalized areas of the Sindh province with support of private sector.
Currently a total 393 schools are established under SEF and SERP through the PPRS program.
*1675. MS. RANA ANSAR: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
Funds released for Sindh Education Reform Program by World Bank during 2007-08 alongwith the number of schools benefitted under the same?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
The World Bank has supported the Sindh Education Reform Program (SERP) which was initiated by Government of Sindh in 2006-07 in the form of Sindh Education Sector Development Policy Credit (SEDPC) amounting to US$ 100 million during the financial year 2007-08.
That funds were utilized in four complimentary pillars. The first pillar includes fiscal, financial management and procurement reforms aimed at strengthening provincial finances and the effectiveness of public expenditures while increasing education and other poverty-related expenditures. The second pillar includes reforms to strengthen the functioning, capacity and accountability of provincial and district education management in line with devolution objectives to provide incentives to districts to improve service delivery; and to strengthen the role of school management committees in school development and monitoring, the third pillar aims at improving access to quality schooling, with a particular focus on rural areas and girls, by improving the quality and free textbooks and girls’ stipend and by launching partnerships with non-government/private sector to increase access and quality. The fourth pillar aims to improve the quality of teaching and learning through instituting merit-based recruitment and improved accountability of teachers, establishing a competency-based system of teacher education and continuous professional development and through strengthening the assessment of student achievement in the provincial education system.
No. of schools benefitted:
School level No. of Schools
Boys Girls Co-education Total
Primary 10155 7487 26673 44315
Middle/Elementary 867 914 1316 3097
Secondary 638 491 472 1601
Higher Secondary 49 66 83 198
Total 11709 8958 28544 49211
School level Enrollment
Boys Girls Total
Primary 2001910 1333261 3335171
Middle/Elementary 130924 99958 230882
Secondary 346109 231857 577966
Higher Secondary 115656 72300 187956
Total 2594599 1737376 4331975
School level Teachers
Male Female Total
Primary 68865 26987 95852
Middle/Elementary 6240 3952 10192
Secondary 15525 10491 26016
Higher Secondary 3904 2043 5947
Total 94534 43473 138007
Source: SEMIS Census 2007-2008.
*2335. MR. KAMRAN AKHTAR: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
District-wise and Taluka / Town-wise number of middle schools upgraded to the level of secondary school during 2011-12 and 2012-13 in the province?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
District-wise and Taluka-wise schools upgraded from Middle to Secondary level during 2011-2012 & 2012-2013.
District S.No. Taluka No. of schools
Badin i) Badin 3
ii) Matli 4
iii) Tando Bago 2
iv) Talhar 1
Dadu i) Dadu 5
ii) Johi 2
iii) K.N Shah 5
iv) Mehar 3
Jacobabad i) Jacobabad 5
ii) Thull 2
Jamshoro i) Thana Bula Khan 2
ii) Manjhand 1
Kambar-Shahdadkot i) Kambar 2
ii) Shahdadkot 3
iii) Warrah 1
iv) Naseerabad 1
v) Sujawal Junejo 1
Kashmore i) Kandhkot 5
ii) Kashmore 2
iii) Tangwani 9
Khairpur Mirs i) Gambat 2
ii) Khairpur Mirs 3
iii) Kingri 2
iv) Kot Diji 1
Larkana i) Dokri 2
ii) Larkana 1
iii) Rato Dero 3
iv) Bakrani 2
Mirpurkhas i) Kot Ghulam Mohammad 3
ii) Mirpurkhas 1
iii) Jhuddo 1
iv) Sindhri 1
v) Hussain Bux Mari 3
Matiari i) Hala 5
ii) Matiari 7
iii) Saeedabad 4
Naushero Feroze i) Kandiaro 7
ii) Moro 5
iii) Naushero Feroze 3
iv) Mehrabpur 2
Sanghar i) Shahdadpur 1
Shaheed Benazirabad i) Qazi Ahmed 1
ii) Daur 2
Shikarpur i) Shikarpur 2
Tando Allahyar i) Tando Allahyar 3
ii) Jhando Mari 5
iii) Chamber 1
Tharparkar i) Mithi 3
Umerkot i) Umerkot 3
ii) Pithoro 1
iii) Kunri 1
Total 140
*2957. MR. SHIRAZ WAHEED: Will the Minister for Education be pleased to state:-
(a) Is it a fact that being in dilapidate condition school building of Government Girls Primary School, Kumbhar Colony, Ward No.2 in Tando Bagho Town, is closed for the last 15 years resulting educational career of about 150 girls suffering;
(b) If answer to (a) above is affirmative, reasons thereof along with intention of the Government to repair/reconstruct the said school building?
ANSWER
JAM MEHTAB HUSSAIN DAHAR, Minister for Education:
There is no Government Girls Primary School Kumbhar Colony Ward No.2 in taluka Tando Bago.
However, Government Girls Primary School Kumbhar Mohalla Ward No.3 of Taluka Tando Bago is functional having an enrolment of 49 students.
The details of Government schools in Taluka Tando Bago, district Badin are as under:
· Boys Primary: 627
· Girls Primary: 75
· Boys Middle: 17
· Girls Middle: 05
· Secondary: 07
· Female: 03
· Higher Secondary: 03
· Female: 01
Grand Total: 738
G. M. Umar Farooq
Karachi Secretary
the 22nd Sept. 2016. Provincial Assembly of Sindh.
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