Primary education in Punjab

 !Punjab Primary School

Aid Gopang

It is said that if you want development for a short time, do business, for a few years, then plant a tree and if you want development forever, get education and these three reasons for development are present in Punjab. As soon as the boundary of Punjab begins, the unending series of trees on both sides of the roads begins and business centers in the cities will be seen at their height and educational institutions like this. Can be turned!

Here I will mention a primary school in a backward area of Punjab, the sight of which stunned my mind and renewed a wish that if there were such schools and teachers in Sindh, all the pains of Sindh would be at an end. get off At a distance of about 25 kilometers from Multan, the primary school of Deh Bilil is located on the main road to Shujaabad. While passing through there, when I looked at the school building, I got excited to see that school and after a few hours, I stopped at the door of the school and told the school administration that a teacher from Sindh would like to see your school and be with you. Want to meet! At that moment, the headmaster of the school, Muhammad Asghar Sukira, came with a lot of love and politeness, he entered the school and sat in an empty classroom. There is a school in a backward area, the population here is related to the head packing business, so the three teachers assigned to the school and a benefactor from the neighborhood arrange a village meal for the poor children every week. Children can eat a full meal a week!

This school was deprived of basic facilities but the teachers were not in need. There was no janitor, patwali or bhangi appointed in the school, even though the cleanliness was heart-wrenching. Not far from the school building, there were some charts in the classrooms, on which were written information about dengue mosquitoes, classroom etiquette, guidelines for the safety of the school building and furniture, about the dangers of electricity, about the responsibilities of teachers and parents. And the marks of a good student and citizen were listed on the charts. An iron pot was kept for the educational materials of the school. When asked about the headmaster's office, it was said that there is a concept of office in primary school? The school timings are from 8.15 am to 2.45 am in winter and from 7.30 am to 2.00 pm in summer, the headmaster is local and the other two teachers (one male and one female) Mahmood Ali and Asma Hasan come from Multan every day and that too on time! They said that how can the teacher come late to school!? Because they were not familiar with the visa process of Sindh teachers.

They said that they themselves are responsible for the cleanliness and safety of the school. The school had no electricity (only fittings) and a hand pump for water. There were clean bathrooms and an excellent flower nursery in the school premises. On the board outside the school it was written that come and see what efforts we take for the better education of children and also the classification of the school and its teachers was listed that the school was shown in A category and the teacher was shown in A one category. were This school was different from the schools of Sindh, the day the school was seen, it was Friday. There were 116 male and female students enrolled in the school and 112 were present. The headmaster, worried to know the reason for the four absent students, considered himself responsible and said that this should not happen!

Among the assistant teachers, Mahmood Ali is a master degree in Urdu and Asma Hazan is an MSc holder in Zoology, his grade was only 09 and the head master was in grade 14 and only got intermediate education. They said, what is the use of showing educational degrees just to increase the salary!? Who can not prove to be a good teacher! These teachers, deprived of the benefit of the time scale, were shocked to hear the grades and salaries of the primary teachers of Sindh! And I lowered my head in order to avoid being embarrassed, so as not to be asked if the teachers and schools there are like that!?

Seeing these teachers, I remembered that a few years ago I went to the National Institute of Science and Technical Education (NISTE) for teacher training, where the teachers of Sindh were highly praised and one day in Hujjat, I was sure In order to do this, he asked the teacher that the teachers of Sindh are entitled to this praise. He said openly that intelligent teachers of Punjab have gone to foreign countries and institutions for more knowledge and responsible teachers consider themselves better in their own schools than coming here. The improvement of education is seen in Punjab. If the primary school in the backward area here has such a good educational system, then how will the schools in the developing areas and cities be?

And even then in Sindh, the sure tone is often heard that Punjab rules and Sindh is trapped in slavery. The truth is that Punjab feels like ruling and we have got used to living in slavery.