What do Students in Sahiwal Think?

A group of stu­dents asso­ci­at­ed with Khu­di Pak­istan con­duct­ed a sur­vey to find out student’s per­cep­tions about the root cause of social evils in Pak­istan. Under the guid­ance of Prof. Jalil butt, one hun­dred stu­dents from dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines of five edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions includ­ing Comsats,HI – Career Com­ers Col­lege, Imamia degree col­lege, DIPS, and Johar Post Grad­u­ate Col­lege Sahi­w­al were ques­tioned about their per­cep­tions. The find­ings of the sur­vey iden­ti­fied the prob­lems of bad gov­er­nance, mis­use of pow­ers, unem­ploy­ment, lack of youth pol­i­cy, mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion of reli­gious thought, lack of polit­i­cal edu­ca­tion and pover­ty.  The rel­a­tive per­cent­age of opin­ion about these prob­lems is giv­en under:

1. Bad gov­er­nance      40%
2. Cor­rup­tions     10%
3. Illit­er­a­cy     5%
4. Intol­er­ance      8%
5. Lack of polit­i­cal edu­ca­tion     6%
6. Lack of youth pol­i­cy     5%
7. Mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion of reli­gious thought     7%
8. Mis­use of pow­ers     3%
9. Over pop­u­la­tion     3%
10. Pover­ty     8%  
11. Unem­ploy­ment     5%

Sur­vey reveals that the major­i­ty of the respon­dents think that bad gov­er­nance is the root cause of all social prob­lems in Pak­istani soci­ety. Hence the research team rec­om­mends ini­ti­at­ing some advo­ca­cy action about vot­ers’ aware­ness, polit­i­cal edu­ca­tion, and pro­mo­tion of lit­er­a­ture on good gov­er­nance and democ­ra­cy.

—Writ­ten by Dan­ish Jalil

(Pub­lished in The Laal­tain — Issue 6)