Educational institutions shut out of compulsion, says Saeed Ghani
Karachi
April 6, 2021
Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani has said positive coronavirus cases in educational institutions of the province stand at 2.7 per cent, and the government could not have waited till this percentage exceeded 10 per cent before suspending classroom teaching in schools and colleges.
Speaking at a press conference in Karachi on Monday, he said the suspension of in-person classroom teaching of students of up to Class 8 would damage the cause of education, but in no way could the government do any compromise on the health of the children.
He said all such extraordinary steps of the Sindh government related to the education sector had been purely taken out of compulsion. Ghani warned that the education sector would be completely ruined if the students were declared to have passed the educational boardsâ annual examinations for the second consecutive year without appearing in the exams.