WB to provide $ 100 million for promotion of education annually: Arbab

Chief Minister Sindh Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that the education programme in Sindh would be made more consolidated aimed at to improve the quality of education.
He said this during a meeting with the delegation of World Bank and provincial education department.
Dr Arbab said that WB would provide $ 100 million annually to Sindh government that would be incurred on promotion of education in the province.
Chief Minister said that teaching staffs would be recruited on the basis of merit to enhance the standard of government-run schools.
“Every year, 18 percent increase is being made in educational budget in Sindh with the aim to enhance the quality of education in the province”, he noted.
He underlined that the monitoring committees established for overseeing the quality education in the province had to take important initiatives for uplifting the standard of education in Sindh.
Provincial Education Minister, Dr Hameeda Khuhro, briefed the chief minister and WB delegation about the steps being taken for promotion of education in Sindh.
The meeting was attended by Dr Hand Mukhtiar, Miss Tahseen Syed, and Miss Rema Nayyar of WB, Chief Secretary Sindh Shakeel Durani and secretaries of education and finance.