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Half of Sindh Edu budget goes to colleges
Karachi, June 17, 2008: The Sindh Education Department
will get Rs 2.3 billion or roughly 16 percent more than what it received in last
year's budget. Out of this, nearly a half or one billion rupees is going into
College education. A meager 10 million rupees is for teachers. Special education
gets Rs 507 million and Elementary Education Rs 325 million.
District
Officers of Education will receive five million rupees to improve public schools
in Hyderabad. The Secretary of Education will receive Rs 7,782,000 to improve
the Sindh Textbook Board, Jamshoro. Money (Rs 3m) has been set aside for an
auditorium for the boy scouts in Karachi, Rs 5 million for an Education Complex
in Karachi.
IBA Sukkur will receive Rs 23 million for a hostel block for
boys, staff residences and bungalows. Five million rupees has been set aside for
new schools at Taiser town, Baldia and Hawkesbay. Education city will get Rs 20
million in Karachi. Daily Times
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BIEK approves Rs452.5m budget
Karachi: The board of governors of the Board of Intermediate
Education, Karachi, on Monday approved a budget of Rs452.5 million for the
financial year 2008-09.
According to the budget documents, the BIEK has
allocated Rs399 million under the head of its expenditures as against its income
of Rs452.5 million for the next financial year, thus indicating a surplus of
Rs53.4 million.
Though the size of the BIEK's budget for the forthcoming
fiscal has been termed the biggest-ever in its history, no increase has been
introduced in any fee pertaining to the examination, enrolment, registration and
marks sheets.
Highlighting the salient features of the budget, the BIEK
chairman, Prof Anwar Ahmed Zai, said that though the government had announced a
20 per cent increase in the basic pay of government employees, the salaries of
the Board's employees had been increased by almost 40 per cent because with the
increase in their basic pay, the amount of other allowances and perks would also
increase.
He said that a number of allowances for the Board's employees
in the next financial year had been substantially increased and as such the
conveyance allowance of its grade 1 to 16 employees had been enhanced by Rs300;
utility allowance for its grade 1 to 20 employees by Rs300; educational
allowance for each category by Rs500; medical allowance by Rs400; diagnostic
charges allowed to grade 1 to 15 employees had been increased from one basic pay
to 1 ½ basic pay; maternity charges from the existing Rs1,800 to Rs2,500,
entertainment allowance by Rs500; special pay for the employees of grade 16 and
above had been raised from the existing Rs550 to Rs600, while the number of
scholarships awarded to the wards of its employees had also been increased from
10 to 15.
Apart from this, the board in its next year's budget has also
increased the rate of emoluments of examiners, paper-setters, invigilators, etc,
by 20 per cent.
When asked as to how the board being a self-finance
generating institution would be able to meet the additional expenses that it
would have to incur in the wake of the enhanced salaries and allowances, Prof
Zai said that as soon as he assumed the charge of the BIEK's chairman, he
switched over the Board's account from current to savings account and as such
interest amount which the BIEK got soared to Rs12.5 million. Dawn
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PM fails to order release of HEC funds
Karachi: Despite the intervention of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, the
federal finance ministry still did not release the fourth quarterly instalment
of development and recurring grant worth Rs 7.4 billion for 2007-08 to the
Higher Education Commission (HEC), a well-placed source told The Nation on
Monday.
The source said, "If the government did not take higher education
sector as its first priority, public universities would start to be closed down
because nearly 59 public sector universities are suffering from financial crisis
due to refusal of the federal finance ministry to release the HEC fourth
quarterly instalment. Conversely, the government did not increase the HEC budget
even symbolically and it remained fixed at Rs 18 billion while an amount worth
Rs 15.7 billion has been allocated on account of recurring budget. It seems that
public universities will suffer from insufficient budget for higher
education".
The indifference of the government towards higher education might
damage several research and development projects of public universities, funded
by the HEC, whose basic responsibility is to facilitate higher learning to serve
as engines for socio-economic development of Pakistan, the source added.
He
pointed out that Prime Minister had assured the HEC high-ups on 12th May that
the said instalment would soon be released but no he seems powerless before
invisible but powerful lobbies, bent on depriving the new generation of higher
education. He said, "Some powers are hatching conspiracies against the HEC to
undermine the higher education sector in the country. Their prime objective is
to defame the coalition government and undermine the most emerging sector in the
country.
Talking about the initiatives, being funded by the HEC, the source
said that the scholarship programme might be stopped under this situation as the
scholars studying abroad would suffer a cut in their stipends.
It is worth
mentioning that academicians and scholars have already expressed their concern
over the allocation of inadequate federal budget for education sector in the new
fiscal year 2008-09. They said that insufficient budget for higher education has
exposed the priorities of the federal government. The Nation
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