Re: No new university in Hyderabad
Bhai sahib, if new universities were made in distant parts, people would prefer getting education in their own towns, as they do till FA/FSc education. People come to Sindh University, when they don't find such institutes in their area. Building Universities in those areas will increase Hyderabad city's seats. why people should not be provided education in their own areas?
Sindh universitygive seats to students of Dadu, LaRkana and Sukkur. In case of medical universities, students of these areas go to Chandka Medical College, LaRkana (now named behind BB) and students from Hyderabad get seats in Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro. If setting up medical colleges can lessen the burden on LMC, then why not universities like Karachi university and Sindh university be built in those remote areas of Sindh?
Public sector Universities are mostly located in cities with large population (unless an area with small population is rich and people there are contributing huge taxes). Reasons are simple. They are:
Decision on population: Universities serves large number of students and cities with large population have large number of students, so universities are always near them.
It is like: City ‘Big’ that has 1 million people would have 10 times more students than City ‘Small’ that has 100 thousand people (that also, if city ‘Small’ is not one that has agrarian economy, else number of students from city ‘Small’ would be much lower … as is the case with most Pakistani small cities, towns and villages).
So, it is obvious that if University is in city ‘Small’ serving city ‘Big’ then 10 times more students from city ‘Big’ would be travelling to or moving to live in city ‘Small’ to study. If it would be other way round than a small number of students would be travelling or moving to live in city ‘Big’ to study.
It is also obvious that city ‘Big’ that has 1 million people would easily accommodate and absorb students from city ‘Small’ as the number of students compare to population of city ‘Big’ would be very little. On the other hand, if University is at city ‘Small’ than city ‘Small’ would not be able to accommodate large number of students from city ‘Big’ coming to study, and for that, other than University, city ‘Small’ would need huge increase in infrastructure and accommodation facilities.
Same argument applies if University is at city ‘Small’ serving city ‘Big’ plus 9 other city ‘Small’. Because, now, city ‘Small’ would be serving 10 times student from city ‘Big’ and 9 times student from other 9 ‘Small’ cities. Assuming all small cities have 1000 students at university and city ‘Big’ has 10000 students, then university would have 19000 students from outside and 1000 students local (or city would get 19 percent of city population from outside as students, difficult for many cities to accommodate). On the other hand, if university is at city ‘Big’ than 10000 students would be local and 10000 students would be from outside (or city would need to accommodate only 1 percent extra population due to outside students, easy for city to accommodate and handle).
Decision due to tax contribution: When we talk about public money than that does not mean it belongs to government (or politicians) who can do whatever they like with the money. Public money comes from public, or those who pay that money in various taxes. These tax-payers like that the money they pay as taxes are used to provide facilities to them. Others living in the country shares the facilities as co-citizen, but not as payer or contributors of those facilities.
That means, if government collects tax or revenue from area ‘A’ than most of the money or revenue collected should be spent first on area ‘A‘, not on area ‘B’. People living in area ‘B’ only share the facilities at area ‘A’ (most of the time).
When government collects taxes from area ‘A’ and spend that in area ‘B’ for facilities before first providing those facilities to people living in area ‘A’ than that is not only unjust but it only happens if area ‘A’ is colony of area ‘B’ and people living in area ‘A’ are there to serve people living in area ‘B’. No place in Pakistan is colony (at least they should not be) nor Pakistanis living in any area are colonial slaves (at least they should not be), so such should not happen.
Hyderabad gives more taxes in Sindh than any other city, town or village (except Karachi), so it is their right to get tax money spent there to provide facilities before any other places in Sindh … and that includes public universities, that government can only provide using taxes coming from people, and thus such taxes should be spent first to serve people who are paying those taxes. Politicians have to know that public money is not coming from politicians own pocket, neither it belong to them that they do whatever they like.
[That is the reason, if an area starts paying huge taxes and start contributing hugely to economy (due to agriculture, mining, fishing, industry, services, or whatever), then government gives the area (and people living there) more facilities than areas that are not that economically active.
If University is coming from private sector than there is no need to follow rules, such as selecting population centers or looking at who is contributing what in taxes, rather private sector can select areas to locate Universities wherever they want to (anywhere private sectors likes), as money belongs to private sector and thus they have right to spend that money whatever way and wherever they want].
