Sindh’s Education Boards Barred From Spending On Co-Curricular Activities

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A ban has been imposed forthwith on expenditure on any extracurricular and co-curricular activities conducted by all education boards in Sindh, in view of the current financial constraints as reported by education boards and observed through respective reconciliation statements by the same.

In this regard, Deputy Secretary Boards Ahsan Randhawa has sent a letter to all board chairmen. It is reported that educational boards of Sindh regularly charge co-curricular activities and scout fees along with examination fees, but suddenly the deputy secretary has issued a letter.

The letter further directed that the boards should observe absolute austerity in financial matters and initiate such effective measures so as to curb avoidable expenditures, in letter and spirit, under intimation to the administrative department.

“Furthermore, in case of any exigent necessity arising pertaining to subject activities, chairmen are required to seek prior approval from the Controlling Authority, without fail. In context to all above, I am directed to state that any reports of non-compliance to the above-cited directions may render liability to be fixed upon the responsible entity.”

It should be noted that the IBCC in its meeting had approved a summer camp in Islamabad at the beginning of October in which the matric and inter-exam position holders of all the provinces had to participate while each board had to pay its own expenses. But now the position holding students of Sindh will not be able to participate due to the ban on curricular activities.

Published in News Daily on 27 September 2024.

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