#Pakistan - Message of Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on International Day of Education

Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that PPP governments in Pakistan established the largest numbers of higher education institutions and colleges besides record primary and non-formal schools in the country to promote education.

In his message on the eve of International Day of Education being observed globally tomorrow, Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that education remains top priority of his Party as it believes that the future belongs to our children and youth, and the dream of a bright future without education will remain unfulfilled. PPP governments always increased the education budget, whenever in power and established record number of universities and other technical education institutions in the history of country, he added.

He said that professional and technical education are key to a better future and for this purpose the share of education in budget has to be increased. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari pointed out that expenditure on education has dropped to 1.5% of the GDP during the selected regime of Imran Khan, which shows a sorry state of affairs. After winning the next general elections, PPP government will further increase the education budget, he vowed.

PPP Chairman said those compromising on the educational promotion and making unbearable cuts in the budget of universities and their allied centers are in fact causing great disservice to the nation. “Such approach is extremely hostile to the people, when on the one hand, about 25 million children between the ages of 5 and 16 are out of schools, while on the other, there is a big difference in access to quality education among the children of poor and privileged classes in the country,” he added.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari pointed out that this is PPP’s manifesto that we will have to move beyond the traditional curriculum and teaching methods to an education system that will inculcate in children creative and critical problem-solving and decision-making skills. He pledged that after winning the next general election, PPP would ensure that, in accordance with the Constitution of Pakistan, the State provides equal access to quality education to all children, adding that, the peoples government will increase expenditure ratio of education to more than 3% of GDP initially and continue to maintaining our own record of establishing more and more universities, colleges and other technical education institutions.

https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/26140/