KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday distributed cash prizes worth Rs927 million among 145 position holders, and 36,157 A-1 graders of all groups of matriculation and intermediate examinations of all educational boards.
The chief minister, while speaking at the cash prize distribution, said that around Rs3 billion are being spent on the enrollment, registration and examination fees and cash prize distribution among the position holders of all the educational boards operating all over Sindh.
There are eight educational boards, including Technical Board and Shaheed Benazirabad board which are scheduled to start functioning from the next year. Around 550,000 students are receiving Higher Secondary Classes (HSC) education, while 750,000 are studying in secondary classes (SSC). The number of students who have obtained A-1 grades in all the boards comes to 36,157.
The chief minister gave a Rs300,000 cash prize to first position holder, Rs200,000 to fecond position holder, Rs100,000 to third position holder and Rs25,000 to each A-1 grader. BISE Mirpurkhas bagged 21 position holders cash prizes, BISE Sukkur received 39, Larkana 28, Hyderabad 24, BSE Karachi nine and BIE Karachi 24 cash prizes.
CM Sindh said that when he took over as a chief minister he had decided to waive of registration, enrolment and examination fee and also decided to give cash prizes to the position holders.
“The overall enrolment, examination and registration fees cost over Rs1.76 billion to the government while he has released Rs927 million cash prizes,” he said.
The chief minister was please to see a large number of position holders and A-1 graders sitting under the roof of the CM House. “You are future of our nation and I am sure one day you would achieve excellence in different fields,” he said.
He congratulated the students, their teachers and parents for receiving cash awards. “I am sure you will keep it up and would also achieve highest prizes in your further educational activities,” he told students.
The chief minister said that he was working hard to improve educational standard in the province. “One day our students particularly of public sector educational institutes would compete on international level,” he said and added to achieve this excellence the teachers, the parents, the boards and the civil society have to join their hands to eradicate copy culture.
