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Education dept tops corruption list: Ombudsman
LARKANA, Nov 04, 2007: Sindh Ombudsman Yousuf Jamal said on Saturday that
Education Department was on top of the list of corruption, adding that it was
impossible for anyone to eradicate it completely.
Addressing a symposium
titled 'Village Assembly' here on Saturday, he said the element of ghost schools
figured high and recently the EDO Education Dadu was suspended and some officers
transferred on the report of Regional Director Ombudsman Dadu on charges that
the EDO appointed 567 persons against the strength of 273 and now it was the
turn of Larkana.
Calling Ombudsman's office a 'mid-way house between
judiciary and administration' he said the drastic action came in after his
report in the Sindh Text Book Board and thanked the Sindh Governor for the
action. The corruption had a 'national psyche' and 'characteristics'. Love,
tolerance and accommodation was now history, he said and urged the stakeholders
to play their role in correcting the ills. The Ombudsman Office planned to open
more offices in districts to broaden service spectrum.
Ashfaque Memon,
Secretary Provincial Ombudsman Office said according to 1988 Census, out of 3.5
crore population of Sindh, 40 lakhs male and five lakhs female were working.
There was no standard of good governance, he said.
The District Nazim
Muhammed Bakhsh Arijo said 88 schools were lying closed in Larkana and called
for joint efforts to address the evils.
The Ombudsman ordered the
Regional Director Larkana Office to submit report within three days. Prof S.M.
Yusuf. Principal Cadet College Larkana said 'we are fitting the misfits' where
the element of nepotism had crept into our society and double-standards coupled
with corrupt practices had developed disrespect for merit.
Dr Sikandar
Mughal, Vice Principal of Chandka Medical College Larkana identified feudalism
as root-cause where peasants and villagers suffer at the hands of feudal. Abdul
Razzak Soomro former ambassador to the UAE, Dr Sabhiya Mughal, Deedar Abbasi,
Panjal Sangi, Dr Dur Muhammed Pathan also spoke on the occasion. Dawn
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Education News| Updated: 09 Jan, 2009 |
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