PAT issues white paper on education

LAHORE, October 9: Pakistan Awami Tehreek has issued a White Paper on the educational policies of the government, which stated that the standard of education in the country almost worst in the world.Relesing the White Paper PAT Leaders Basharat Jaspal, Fayyaz Warraich and Brig(Retd)Mohammed Mushtaq  have said that over $ 541 million aid given by donors for education have been misappropriated. They said that according to the UNESCO Global Digest in 2010 that after China and India, Pakistan was the third largest recipient that was given aid to the tunes of $541 million for the education sector. They said that despite recieving huge amount, the literacy rate did not improve but rather fell and no development worth noting has been witnessed in the country.The White Paper noted that in Punjab alone there are over 900 government educational institutions are functioning without any head and over 500 schools have been illegally occupied and the government is oblivious of this fact and does not act against the occupants. -Online