Schools, Books And Children

Schools, books and children deserve the most attention. In developed societies, they have been given and are being given the most attention, but in our country, the most disrespect is being given to them. Schools are training grounds. The lessons learned here are lifelong. The book is the bearer of light. It enlightens children with knowledge and guidance and guides them in moving forward in life and children are the future of every nation. The country and the nations get development from them and the future and the present are in their hands.

The nation that pays attention to these three, success kisses their footsteps and the nation that turns away from them is always a victim of slavery and humiliation.

If we look at the developed nations, the credit for their success can be seen in paying attention to all three of them, and the countries which seem to be enslaved in the system of slavery seem to be the cause of their indifference to these three.

Unfortunately, even in Pakistan, there are people who are occupying schools and books and in the greed of money, they are darkening the future of the children of Pakistan. These people have turned into a mafia, which includes government officials, elected public representatives, school administrations and large book printing companies.

These people have become so bold that they expose corruption in public and are so strong that even those who take action on their corruption, when they take it easy, this mafia is so powerful that they can even call the chairman of the textbook board. It seems that the institutions and officers whose job it is to improve the quality of education in Pakistan are the ones who are destroying this system. They are ruining the future of the children by their corruption and ruining the government school system.

These stories of corruption in schools and books are now becoming popular everywhere. Talks are happening, news is also being published. Columns are being written, but not in stagnant water. Those institutions are silent which should take action on corruption. What is dearer to them than the children of the nation is that the money spent on school and books is being looted and all eyes are closed.

A handful of people who are counting the huge amount of money received from the British agency DFID are going to sell their books with the connivance of the top officials of the Punjab Schools Department but no one is taking notice. Look at the extreme shame that the institutions of other nations are giving aid for the betterment of Pakistani children and we are bent on consuming that money instead of working for the betterment of our own children.

DFID provided funds for the betterment of schools and children in Punjab. Look at our greed that the money we spend on our children is being sacrificed to corruption.

When this project started, as before, the people associated with this mafia reached the school education department and got the books of their institutions approved by collaborating with them. They also included books that were beyond the reach of high school students, but in the game of money, Who thinks.

The Department of School Education ignored all the big and small institutions and favored its approved publishers and rewarded them in such a grand manner that even the examples of Mughal kings are not found in history. Even the Mughal emperors used to think before awarding a land or medal to anyone, but here they did not even think while awarding.

Add four books of one servant and hundreds of books of each organization. Who now asks the officers of the department of one's three institutions and more than a hundred books of each institution why there are three institutions in the name of one servant? And why not listen to the rest of the helpless little publishers who are printing a few but standard and corrective books, who are roaming around the offices of education every day?

Are these destructive games organized by corruption organized? If this is not a well thought out plan then how can there be silence in Pakistan which will stop the game being played in the destruction of schools, books and children? Will Pakistani children go away from school and books because of mafia or will their future ever be bright?