While we all were busy looking for a absolute picture of forthcoming government of unstable Balochistan, which is by hook or by crook not clear yet, there was news of regularizing 5000 teacher of Balochistan which didn’t get much attention in local media.
Along with many other steps by last government of Pakistan People’s Party ‘’Aghaz-e-Huqooq Balochistan’’ Package was one of the major step to calm down the anxiety among youth of Balochistan by providing them job opportunities, under this package diverse initiatives were introduced for the people of Balochistan including scholarships for the students for studying institutions of Pakistan and many career opportunities in provincial and federal departments, major recruitment took place as 5000 graduates were hired on the basses of a simple 1 page test in districts as teachers,
Indeed, it was a great footstep to provide jobs to the huge number of unwaged Baloch youth, but why this experiment on education? The province which’s literacy rate is only 34 per cent compared to national scale of 52 per cent. The female literacy rate in rural areas of the province is only 10 per cent. It should be alarming to note that out of 1.1 million primary school going children in rural areas of Balochistan,
Undeniably, this recruitment will attempt to bring the ratio on balance, but who will ensure the quality? The graduates who were hired on the basses of effortless process and having advantage of being associations of the officers and politicians, how will contribute for a better Balochistan?
There was a golden opportunity to modify the blunder into an opportunity before regularizing these 5000 teachers, if they were filtered by appearing in examination by Balochistan Public Service Commission, but we missed it, now thousands of students will be getting ready for the future of Balochistan by 5000 young graduates who were changed with one single notification from contract graduate teachers to permanent government teachers.
