KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed to identify fake recruitments in Education department through the record of Accountant General (AG) office.
"This would be easy to trace out if you go through the payroll made by AG Sindh", the chief minister said this while presiding over a meeting of Education department in which development,non-development and foreign funded projects were reviewed here on Monday.
The meeting was attended by Senior Minister for Education Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Minister for Finance Syed Murad Ali Shah, Additional Chief Secretary (Development) Waseem Ahmed, Secretary Education Fazal Pechuho, Secretary Finance Sohial Rajput and other senior officers.
The chief minister during the presentation pointed out that he had reports that some of the education department officers on district level were involved in fake and bogus recruitment.
The Secretary Education informed the meeting that some district officers of Education department were allegedly involved in this racket. "They created fake IDs to make bogus appointments. Some of these cases have been unearthed with solid evidences," he said.
The chief minister also directed Secretary Finance to hold a meeting with AG Sindh and get the copies of payroll to the Secretary Education for inquiry within three days and report him.
Senior Minister for Education giving presentation took up different development sectors of his department such as ADP 2014-15 allocations and expenditures; USAID, CIDA Programme, JICA programme, World Bank SERP-II, ICT project, EU Technical Assistance, English Medium Schools and comprehensive schools in Sindh.
Giving details of USAID programme, Nisar Khuhro said it was known as Sindh Basic Education Programme (SBEP). It was a $155 million programme, of which $81 million earmarked for re-construction of 120 schools damaged by 2010 floods and $74 million for community mobiilisation programme, Sindh Reading Programme, Capacity Development of Education department Programme.
Giving details of CIDA the Senior Minister said that the objective of the project was to strengthen teachers' training institutes by improving their physical infrastructure facilities, support in-service and pre-resource teacher training programmes, provision of teaching resource kits and assistance in curriculum revision.
Talking about Japnese assisted JICA programme, Khuhro said that the programme costing Rs 2076.979 million with Rs 1667.962 million JICA share was aimed at improving access and address gender gaps and rural - urban disparities especially in rural of Sindh by providing sufficient number of elementary schools for girls in prioritised districts of the province.
He said that under the project 58 schools were being up-graded from primary Girls Schools to Elementary Schools in 12 districts. The districts included Mirpurkhas 11 schools, Badin 07 schools, Tando Allahyar 2 schools, Hyderabad two schools, Benazirabad three school, Dadu five schools, Larkana three schools, Khairpur nine schools, Sukkur three schools, Ghotki five schools and Shikarpur one school.
Giving details of ICT (Information Computer Technology) Khuhro said that under the first phase of the scheme ICT academies in 40 select schools and colleges, OB vans, data archiving and PMU would be established. In the second phase ICT academies in 40 select schools and colleges would be set up in five districts, Karachi, Hyderabad, Benazirabad, Larkana and Khairpur.
About EU Technical Assistance he said " the total grant comes to 30 million Euro. In this sector first tranche of 10 million Euro is likely to be transferred to Sindh government by April 2015."
This project includes curriculum development, review, notify and implement Sindh Text book and material development policy, he added.
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