“Stepping
to the bus and crossing by the barren arid sandy roadsides of my
homeland, a silence of the regime I hear and by the time I reach to my
college, a squandering of my talents I experience sometimes. An
outrageous state of my college truly anguishes me each day. I have some
aims and dreams. May be similar to the college students from developed
cities or countries but I don’t ever have any clue if I will be able to
achieve what I dream for. However, an intense hope drags me to college
each day.” states a girl from Syed Zahoor Shah Hashmi Degree College, Gwadar.
“Sitting
under the cracked ceiling of my classroom, a startling fear I feel.
Missing the school days lonely, I sit in my class or sit in the corridor
with friends one or two, waiting for a teacher to teach me, but what I
hear is that we don’t have the particular subject’s teacher in this
college or may be never ever the college had one related to it. What I
worry about is my future because I too have a vision. Yes, I am a Baloch
college student from Gwadar and I am aware of my destiny, but am lost
in the path I assume. I ask why I am being kept away from my fundamental
right to quality education”shared the Baloch student
Among
the people around the world, a conception is common that being a
college student means to have lots of knowledge, exciting projects,
presentations, assessments, and thrilling experiences along with having a
number of responsibilities toward the community and the society as a
whole.
This,
in reality depends on the institution, the system and the region where
an individual is studying. What globally measured are the behaviors and
the outcomes from the students through their quality of work, but the
quality may differ from place to place. That is the reason, why
countless students go out of their town, city or even country in search
of quality education but the ones who can’t afford or are unaware of any
scholarships remain in the same place, just with the hope that one day
everything will change. And of course it will, if the administrators
sincerely take some transforming initiatives and approaches for
educational development as well as its amplification.
Hence,
being a small town with a big name Gwadar is one of the districts in
Balochistan that promises great revenue to the country but is still
underdeveloped. In fact, Gwadar is the most backward district of Makran
as propose of educational development.
Not
only the girls face issues regarding education but the boys too are
victims of the ground quality of education. However, typically girls are
more affected. The boys’ college in the town was established in the
early nineteen-nineties but decades after Gwadar doesn’t even have any
separate college for girls yet. The classes for girls are held in the
boys’ college building in the afternoon.
In
addition this situation exemplifies a so-called “Smart Government”.
Besides saving a tremendous amount of economy by not spending on
education, the new provincial government has been proclaiming, education
as one of its top priorities from a year.
“I
want to get education, I reverie to be a doctor, teacher, engineer,
lawyer, poet and writer, but I ask how can I be all that when I don’t
have a single professor in my college. I perceive discrimination. How
unjust the system is! Whilst regions at least have a few professors at
colleges but we suffer,” Says Bilal Aziz, a student of the college
representing the other students through a press report.
It
extensively drives the students’ minds that why such apathetic conducts
are carried on from such a long time. The students illustrate that a
place never gets developed by a deep-sea port, gold mine, natural gas or
by its agricultural productions till its revenue is not invested for
the development of the that specific region and for its habitants. They
define that education is globally meant to be a fundamental right. But
it is just something that is said but doesn’t sound like an accurate
fact for this particular province.
“The
region’s fame is not going to support us, whereas the sustainable
development is and it is only possible firstly when investments are
carried out for the economic, social, educational and other
developmental intensification for the region and secondly when the
students are empowered which is only possible when they are given equal
opportunities of education as the other provinces are given.”
articulates a student from Gwadar College.
Being
a college student in a town like Gwadar means to be extremely attentive
or else anyone can suffer the loss of skills and undernourishment of
knowledge. It means that self-study and volunteer work can be the best
ways for educational growth in Gwadar, however it is not an interminable
solution though.
The
only eight lecturers try their level best to edify the students,
besides the fact that it is never possible for eight individual to teach
more than 15,00 students. Beginning from 1998, vacancies amplified
every year but remain vacant till today. One of the largest libraries of
the entire district; the college library is short of librarian from
about four years.
The
vacant posts, along with being short of ad-ministerial staff and
librarian as well as not having girls’ separate college and receiving no
attention from the government for roughly ten years now has ended the
devotion and passion for education in the hearts of numerous students
who travel each day eight kilometers from Gwadar city-center to the
college, but still face disillusion. The condition of college in the
so-called port city outrages the students therefore a number of students
don’t even regularly attend the college.
“We
had sent letters to the secretary of the Education Colleges Section
Balochistan, Quetta which included a detailed report about the issues of
college, in November 2013; however we hadn’t got any response yet”,
states the principal of the college.
Youth
from Gwadar certainly can build on the immense progress as a prosperous
strength in every aspect if they are given equal educational
opportunities as the country’s other cities’ students had got. History
has always demonstrated the facts of dominant welfare states along with
proving education as the input for progressive evolution. Today our
education sector deserves serious attention. It is the substantial
responsibility of provincial government to initiate efforts and take
notice of the issue before it’s too late.
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