He said this while presiding over a meeting with a delegation of United Kingdom Department for International Development (UK DFID) led by its head Ms Joanna Reid at Sindh Chief Minister House, said a statement issued here on Friday.

Besides others, the Sindh Education Minister Jam Mehtab Dahar, Principal Secretary to CM Sohail Rajput, Secretary Education Aziz Uqaili and RSU chief Faisal Uqaili attended the meeting.    The chief minister said that he was giving special attention to education and health sectors. He said that in education sector administration and teaching cadres had been separated and audit system had also been developed and special focus was being given on teachers-training to build their capacity.

He said that fiduciary reviews ratings of multilateral funding agencies for education sector projects were getting better.

Added SMS-based complaint system was also in place.

Education minister Jam Mehtab Dahar said that Directorate of Monitoring and Evaluation had been established.

It was fully functional throughout the Sindh province with live IT-based dashboards, independent monitors, data centers and biometric system for the monitoring of over 45,000 schools.

Management Information System (MIS) had also been established as well school management committees had been made functional, he said.

Secretary Education Aziz Uqaili discussing the areas where assistance was required said that there was a need for improving the existing school infrastructure through construction of additional class-rooms and upgradation of primary schools to secondary.

Adding that some basic facilities such as toilets, drinking water, boundary walls and solar-power systems were also required in most of schools. The secretary said that Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) was another area where DFID could extend its assistance.

The Sindh government had ECCE policy under which Regional Resource Centers and classes in all public and private schools were to be established and DFID could extend helping hand.

The chief minister said that teachers recruitment policy of the government was transparent and teaching staff from 2008 had been appointed through National Testing Service (NTS) and then it had also been decided to recruit non-teaching staff through the NTS.

The UK DFID head appreciated the efforts of the Sindh government for improvement of education and assured of support to this effect.