EDUCATION -SINDH- SANITATION

Sindh/Pakistan :100,000 students leave school in the first month every year due to the absence of basic facilities such as water and sanitation.

Lack of proper facilities at educational institutions has at  last and at least drawn the Supreme Courts ire,

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's Global Education Monitoring  [GEM] Report, released yesterday-

Highlighted the government's apparent failure to provide high-quality education in Pakistan.

Lack of  sanitation, level of teacher's salaries, low levels of spending and education and lack of regulations of health and safety at schools- are being counted among the reasons for this.

In Sindh, one of the major issues being faced is lack of sanitation and water facilities.

One-third of schools in the country have no water or basic sanitation or toilets. Only half of government schools have usable toilet.

Taking notice of this and other issues in the province on December 27, 2016, the  Supreme Court of Pakistan constituted a judicial commission to investigate and improve sanitation conditions in Sindh.

A lawyer had taken the authorities concerned to the court over non-supply of clean drinking water and sanitation to the masses in the province, where ''bad'' governance had taken its worst shape.