The Vice Chancellor Sindh University Mazharul Haq Siddiqui said that educational development at all levels is imperative for the evolution of a healthy society in the country.
Presiding over a Sindhi Adabi Conference on the "Role of Writers in 21st Century" he said writers and scholars should play their vital role in creating awareness in the society plagued with illiteracy, hunger and disease.
He said that to meet the challenges of the fast developing world it was obligatory upon the writers and scholars to fulfill their obligations towards the society by improving the education system which would help improve the socio-economic conditions of the people.
He said that presently the University of Sindh was making all out efforts to improve the quality of education and to prepare the future generation to meet the challenges of the 21st Century and hoped that the teachers and writers of the varsity will not hesitate to take up the task of improving the education system in the province where majority of people living below the poverty line.
Referring to his recent visit to UAE to attend the Islamic universities conference and symposium, he said that the leader of the Sharjah, a Ph.D teacher and was more often than not found delivering his lectures at Sharjah University.
He was proud to act as teacher as the member of the teaching profession enjoy more respect in society.
He added that the scholars and writers who are associated with the teaching profession should have to fulfill their responsibilities feeling as honour in the society being a teacher.
Dr N.A.Baloch, the chief guest of the Conference, speaking on the occasion he advised the young generation to work hard for the evolution of healthy and exploitation free society in the province.
Tracing the history of Sindhi Adabi Conference Dr N.A.Baloch, said that in May 1958, 18th Sindhi Adabi Conference was organised by the department of Sindhi, University of Sindh which was inaugurated by late Allama I.I. Kazi, the than Vice Chancellor of the Sindh University.