Quetta: The CM Balochistan has said that despite difficulties, literacy has been our topmost priority.
Talking on world literacy day, the CM Balochistan Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said that despite having met financial and administrative barriers, as many as 1200 closed-schools were re-opened in Balochistan.
Mir Sarfaraz Bugti further said that some 8500 new teachers were hired on merit.
He added that some 90 thousand students were educated by bringing the education to limelight.
He said that some we aim to run another 1200 new community school in the coming year.
CM Balochistan said that Balochistan’s wounds are being healed by slow but gradual steps of development.
He said that putting that keeping our kids on the right track is probably the much-needed thing in the ongoing situation.
The education sector in Balochistan continues to face a severe crisis despite government efforts to revive it.
Official figures show that the province has around 15,096 government schools, of which nearly 3,700 remain non-functional due to a chronic shortage of teachers.
In 2025, the provincial government managed to reopen about 1,400 closed schools and announced plans to restore another 1,800 in phases.
Currently, 48,841 teachers are serving in government schools, but the province still faces a shortage of 12,000 to 16,000 teachers.
The authorities have dismissed over 700 absent teachers and approved a plan to revive nearly 2,975 non-functional schools through new hiring.
Out of nearly five million school-age children in Balochistan, only 2.2 million are enrolled—with 1.1 million studying in government schools, while three million children remain out of school.
Alarmingly, surveys reveal that only 26% of primary students can read basic sentences and just 30% can perform simple arithmetic.
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Despite the grim statistics, officials maintain those ongoing reforms—such as reactivating schools and ensuring teacher accountability—are steps toward improving education in Pakistan’s most underdeveloped province.
