classroom woes
...the inability of the occupying army to deal with the looming crisis in Pakistan....ok let's dispense with the white-wash...democracy and all that blah blah...and about how the power is transferred to the people...more blah blah...
...(came across these figures about four years ago from the then sec. education...a laeeq khan...am relying on memory and am searching for more current numbers)
...every year more than three million young Pakistanis are added to the school going age...between the stretched educational resources of the GoP (digression: the defense related expenses eat up between 48- 66+ % of the budget - depending on how you add up)...here is the low down:
number of new school age children..........3,000,000
based on an average of 30 children
per class—number of additional class
rooms required.........................................100,000
new class rooms provided by govt...................10,000
new class rooms provided by madrasah............6,000
new class rooms provided by pvt groups.........3,000
yearly class rooms shortfall.......................81,000
...that is 2,430,000 plus children that are added every year to the numbers of uneducated...and this folly is compounded every year...millions of hopeless soul scurrying for petty existence and fodder for physical and mental slavery...is there any wonder the literacy rate is going down...(so much for Madrassahs and Schools …not to mention law and order…infra structure development...women issues, gender inequality, honor killing...heck, just about everything except nuclear arsenal and land grab by the faujis?
...am sure there are saner minds in the fauj that have figured this out have come to realize that the pie is shrinking and the occupying army's share cannot be increased beyond a certain point...remember ...no Pakistan, no pakistan army...perhaps that is the driving force behind the fauji's push for a solution to the Kashmir crisis (Indian Troop Reduction in Kashmir: Merely Symbolic?)...so that the meager budgetary resources can be allocated to developmental fields…a bare minimum level of economic prosperity is introduced to help the pie expand...and with a bigger pie the percentage yield for them will become bigger too...
...(came across these figures about four years ago from the then sec. education...a laeeq khan...am relying on memory and am searching for more current numbers)
...every year more than three million young Pakistanis are added to the school going age...between the stretched educational resources of the GoP (digression: the defense related expenses eat up between 48- 66+ % of the budget - depending on how you add up)...here is the low down:
number of new school age children..........3,000,000
based on an average of 30 children
per class—number of additional class
rooms required.........................................100,000
new class rooms provided by govt...................10,000
new class rooms provided by madrasah............6,000
new class rooms provided by pvt groups.........3,000
yearly class rooms shortfall.......................81,000
...that is 2,430,000 plus children that are added every year to the numbers of uneducated...and this folly is compounded every year...millions of hopeless soul scurrying for petty existence and fodder for physical and mental slavery...is there any wonder the literacy rate is going down...(so much for Madrassahs and Schools …not to mention law and order…infra structure development...women issues, gender inequality, honor killing...heck, just about everything except nuclear arsenal and land grab by the faujis?
...am sure there are saner minds in the fauj that have figured this out have come to realize that the pie is shrinking and the occupying army's share cannot be increased beyond a certain point...remember ...no Pakistan, no pakistan army...perhaps that is the driving force behind the fauji's push for a solution to the Kashmir crisis (Indian Troop Reduction in Kashmir: Merely Symbolic?)...so that the meager budgetary resources can be allocated to developmental fields…a bare minimum level of economic prosperity is introduced to help the pie expand...and with a bigger pie the percentage yield for them will become bigger too...
posted by temporal at 9/29/2005
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