IMMEDIATE ATTN: GUTTER WATER

call it an attempt to mimic KGS settings or call it providing premium business education to the flies and mosquitoes which hover around IBA but the gutter water surround the IBA City campus is ever so evident and its disgusting and a health hazard apart from it destroying the look of the campus surroundings its also causing a lot of trouble to students who walk to the bus stop.Its really about time that the administration does something about this. Either talk to the UC nazim or if thats not working they should get someone to clean it up.

ELECTIONS IN FULL SWING

The elections for the student body elections are in full  swing with IBA being painted electric blue, red and what not.

the sad part though, is the apparent spendthrift attitude of the candidates while campaigning. Campaigning should be kept moderate, not exhorbiant. the idea is not to win on basis of who has more money, rather on who has a vision. otherwise we are then , no different from those who are already ruling us

Happy Independence Day

We turn 61 this independence day and all we have learned is to multiply and divide ourselves. with the inflation hitting 24% in July the Country’s ruler intend to impeach the President. That, and correct me if i am wrong, which has not happened in over 100 years. We are closing down schools. leaving students without schools. we are facing a shortage of textbooks. traffic on roads is getting worse day by day. Some are importing exotic animals in their homes. Some are fasting even before Ramazan.  We treat our nuclear scientists, neurologists and students with utmost disregard.

What did you do this independence day to help your country?

What will you do tomorrow for your country?

NCHD closure – 400,000 students school-less

this is wat a friend’s mail was

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hey,

just an article i read in dawn the other day, tucked away in a corner and not mentioned again, because of course, there are things much more important than education in our country. thought i`d share it with a bunch of you guys. i`m hoping it will cause some amount of discomfort.

400,000 children may end up without schools with NCHD’s closure

By A Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: About 400,000 children enrolled in feeder schools, opened by National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), may find their institutions closed down in case the commission is wound up, it has been learnt.

Besides, 550,000 people dependent on the commission would also suffer in the wake of its closure. As many as 80,000 employees of the NCHD have already been shown the door.

The commission has been facing financial hardships since November of last year after the federal government provided it Rs1 billion against the allocated Rs2.3 billion for the fiscal year 2007-08, a source in the commission told Dawn here on Wednesday.

The remaining amount of Rs1.3 billion was due in January 2008 to cater to the needs of the remaining part of the fiscal year ending in June. But this amount was also not provided and instead the NCHD was asked to reduce its budget requirement. However, against a reduced requirement of Rs874 million, a grant of Rs472 million was provided to clear off the liabilities until June 2008, the source said, adding that the NCHD, after clearing off all its liabilities, would be left with only Rs4 million by the end of August. Under such circumstances the NCHD operations would come to a complete halt.

To review the critical state of NCHD funds, especially in the wake of no firm commitment by the government, a meeting of the members of the National Commission for Human Development was held on July 28 which was presided over by its chairman, Dr Nasim Ashraf.

After detailed deliberations, it was unanimously decided that while the government would be approached yet again for provision of required funds, the NCHD must remain legally and financially solvent to avoid future complications in case the funds are not made available.

The commission, therefore, issued termination of service notices to all employees with effect from August 1, she said.

The meeting also considered the issue of security and preservation of NCHD assets the cost of which comes to Rs543 million in 122 locations throughout the country.

It was observed with concern that if the funds were not provided to the NCHD after September 1, the organisation will not be in a position to retain the rental accommodation and services of the necessary staff to take care of its assets, she added.

The decision of closing down the programme all of a sudden and freezing the allocations had caused resentment among the employees, she noted.

Established in 2002 as a fast track initiative to improve social sector outcomes at the grass-root level in 16 districts, the NCHD was fighting fit in the domains of social sectors in 122 districts across the country, she said.

It was after assessing the NCHD performance in 16 districts in 2005 that the president and prime minister directed the commission to extend its operations to all 122 districts for which a grant of Rs14 billion for a period of five years was approved. After the approval the commission established its provincial offices and 98 human development support units in various districts and employed about 88,000 personnel throughout the country including Fata, Fana and Azad Kashmir, she added.

The source further said since its establishment, the NCHD, under its Universal Primary Education Programme, opened 21,639 community-based feeder schools and enrolled 8.235 million children in the age group of five and seven in 117 districts.

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please write to any and all newspapers and post your anger/indignation/mild annoyance on websites and let other people know as well.

i don`t think its very fair that the closing down of one of the few organisations that are working for human development in Pakistan should be taken this lightly. and i know its easy for the article to take a backseat in our minds as well so i`m hoping you`ll write to some newspaper or post it on some blog online within the next hour =p

i`m not going to rave about our literacy rates and the indifference of our tragically comic politicians because we see that every time we switch the t.v. on or flip the newspapers open.

please write, even if you don`t believe its going to lead to anything. the least we can do is try to try.

thanks for reading the email anyways =p

aisha

p.s. try editor@dawn.com

http://dawn.com/2008/08/07/nat16.htm

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Read the constitution

An online copy of the constitution is here. you can post your comments on the page.

The BASC Constituition

It’s a slightly old copy so i have written a few changes that were made in the constitution as per my knowledge.

IBA RE-OPENS

Welcome Students of Year 2012. Welcome to The IBA, The institute of Business Administration.

OPEN DOOR POLICY

Dr. Ishrat Hussain has an open door policy. you dont need to ask anyone before entering. though i do suggest you knock for the sake of being polite. If you have a problem regarding anything, at all. you can go and tell him. He’s there to help you.

For those who have seen the vision. and when i said that when one day someone might ask tell me whats wrong. well, might be a bit early to say it, but am pretty pretty sure of it that , that someone is the Director & Dean of IBA, Dr. Ishrat Hussain.

Change is flowing from top. Are you at the bottom to support it?