Overview
- Sindh Education Minister Sardar Shah announced the one-hour reduction on his official Facebook account and said schools will revise daily schedules to implement the change.
- Shah framed the timing cut as a response to deep budget shortfalls in education and publicly urged the federal government to allocate funds through the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP).
- The minister warned that recent floods have damaged infrastructure across the province, saying about 20,000 schools had their boundary walls harmed and that repairs strain local resources.
- Community-based learning centres that educate hundreds of thousands of children are under pressure from rising inflation, which has pushed up operating costs and increased reliance on external funding.
- Officials also highlighted long-standing problems in Sindh’s education system, including the lack of a uniform provincial policy and a large number of out-of-school children, which they say make funding and infrastructure fixes more urgent.