ISLAMABAD; One wonders as to who is guiding the Pakistan Tehreek- e – Insaf (PTI) government to ruin education in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT)?
Is some mafia of the ruling elite on the move to destroy the educational institutions falling in ICT?
The educational institutions of ICT have a history of better performance than the others falling in other parts of Pakistan. For the same, a vast majority of Pakistani parents prefers ICT schools and colleges for schooling of their kids. ICT was proud to have a beautiful schools and colleges system in every sector of Islamabad.
But then why PTI government decided to change a working system and give ICT educational institutions under the mayor of Islamabad?, An office which has no authority of any kind. The mayor himself keeps running to find a place to sit at and pass his tenure of mayorship without any assignment. Alas, PTI government instead of doing something productive for education was on the destructive move. It first it ravaged medical education by renaming regulatory body that cost the parents of medical students around 50 % extra fee. Who benefitted from that additional fee for medical colleges? After causing loss to medical education and making money out of it, now PTI government has turned to junior educational institutions of Islamabad. Probably, some money seekers are pushing ahead their agenda of changing the status of ICT schools and colleges and play the real game afterward by giving them to some private organisation.
But this crisis may have serious repurcussions for PTI government. The protests of tens of thousands of teachers of ICT educational institutions at National Press Club here on Thursday should be enough to tell the ruling party and those who were behind the move of handing educational institutions to the mayor of Islamabad may push them in deep crisis. The wailing teachers in thousands who were part of Thursday’s protest have made a clear message to the PTI government that they will not continue their duties as teachers if it goes ahead with its destrictive move of handing over ICT schools and colleges to the mayor of Islamabad.
