Biometric system to monitor government schools in Sindh
New endowment fund to provide financial assistance to deserving students
Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani said work has been in progress to introduce the biometric system to ensure attendance of students in the government-run schools of the province.
Sindh Education minister while addressing a reception held to mark the 30th anniversary of the foundation of a representative body of the private schools in the province, said earlier the biometric system had been successfully introduced to ensure that teachers associated with the governmentrun schools in the province regularly attended to their duties.
He said that very soon the biometric attendance system would become a compulsory feature of the government-run schools both for their students and teachers.
He urged all the representative bodies of the private schools to get the privately run educational institutions duly registered with the government to help it maintain a complete database of the enrolled students so to know about the latest literacy situation in Sindh.
Ghani said that an endowment fund would be established like the one already available to the college and university students in Sindhto provide financial assistance to the deserving school students.
More schools
He said: “The Sindh government will ensure that an elementary and secondary school was available within the 2km radius of the primary schools so to ensure further education of the students after passing the Class 5.”
The minister further added that the Sindh Education Department has also built an e-portal to ensure a transparent and meritorious mechanism to carry out affairs of the appointment and transfer of the teachers in the government-run schools.