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Laptops for Pakistani students, but what about textbooks
Tuesday April 10, 2012 01:29:32 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Let them
eat cake, French queen Marie Antoinette is presumed to have said
when told that people did not have bread. Several centuries later,
the anomaly being played out in Pakistan with a daily pointing out
that the Punjab government was distributing laptops to students
while hundreds of thousands went without textbooks.
An editorial in the Dawn Tuesday said that as the Punjab
government distributes some 125,000 laptops among qualified
students, and another 300,000 are said to be in the pipelines,
"students in the province face a shortage of textbooks, the
provision of which has reportedly hit many snags".
It said that though the government is at pains to explain that the
laptops' distribution is a transparent affair, "no such
explanation is offered regarding the commissioning, printing and
distribution of the more basic provision of textbooks".
The daily said that hundreds of thousands of students now "fear
having to go through the academic year without the prescribed
books".
While questioning the priorities of the Punjab government, the
daily queried: "What should come first, it must be asked, the
provision of textbooks or the laptops?"
"...the drive to further IT education should not come at the cost
of neglecting the provision of basic education of which textbooks
are an indispensable tool," it added.
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