"Blazing Drama Industry"

Besides all bad and evil, our country has too much positive to discuss about! Our drama industry is climbing the ladder of viewers' attention by showing much realistic yet entertaining soaps and telefilms. It shows our media's growth in a direction to compete with international standards for telecast. Our drama serials have moved forward from the era of conventional home politics to a golden age where not only social issues are being discussed but also being resolved in a positive manner.

This confirms that we are progressing slowly but rightly!

Tuition centres and tax policy

Education is free of tax and it should be free of cost for all! But here in Pakistan, the exponentially rising number of tuition centres has become the new business of this era! Its a business of all profit, no loss because whatever happen, how much you earn, tuition centre owners have to pay 'zero' tax. Now as it is more turning into an industry, government should register them and strictly charge them regular tax per annum. This is a completely fair action because education here is being sold and as it has become more professional and commercial.

In addition, this step will aid to bring back teachers to schools and help in demotivating tuition culture. With this, the public should also realise that tuition should be taken on need basis and they should realise that it is an approach of handicapping their own children in the long run.

Trend of college bullying

Like always, our educational institutions are unable to cope up with their standards and sometimes their silence promotes several actions that ruin a society. I have observed bullying to be a major fear of students and it should be because its a great demotivation and the scariest action for a person new to an environment. Surprisingly, in majority government colleges and private institutes, we find bullies to be more common than high achievers!

Our society facing such dilemmas since ages and we intentionally accepts it because there is no way out! When discussing our educational policy and passing laws over student security, the people making them should also take into account the negative role of bullies in school, colleges and university. Verbal or physical abuse of students is quite common but hidden due to resistance of fear. Similarly, bullies are also a fear to teachers because the stress makes them unable to work.

The public, especially the student faculty should take a step to acknowledge the law enforcement agencies about these issues because they are easy to be tackled. Accordingly, the education commission should enforce regulations over bullying in educational institutions by charging heavy penalties and positive punishments such as regular social work and in serious cases cancellation of examination or even imprisonment. And with that laws over teacher security should also be passed.

"Sustaining the middle class for the sake of tax payment"

A nation aiming to prosper in all fields should have a strong and a majority of middle class in its population. Since decades, it is seen in Pakistan that the middle class is a prey to heavy taxation because most of them are employed. A large percentage of salary is deducted from the pay-roll even before it reaches the employ, this makes it quite clear that whether a person receives a salary or not, his tax is out of his account!In Pakistan, the tax is majorly squeezed out of the middle class, whereas, the majority of the business class believes in showing losses and the rest have the common reason of living under the poverty line. According to a source, less than 2 percent of Pakistan's population pays tax for the sake of development and the rest being non-tax payers question development. Is this a fair action?We find most of the development in those areas where we record the least percentage of tax payers and please note, development is not only solid roads and cleanliness but also betterment of schooling structure and health standards which is again missing. But here again, wealth standards are found less complex and are analysed the most.Whatever I have said is not against tax payment but against the unequal and unfair pull of capital from a specific mass. A nation which aims to secure success should first ensure balance and equality in such matters like taxation. And this is the reason why the middle class should also be sustained by providing them equal benefits as others!

"Victim of tuition culture"

Recently, I have seen an exponential rise in the number of students taking after-school tuitions for various subjects! This is now more a fashion of the urban population, instead of being a medication for a need.

Nowadays, school has just become a registration portal for board examinations, whereas, tuition centres have taken up the role of schools and are quite successful in producing aim-centred and successful students. Here again, the pupil population is at the end of suffering as they are missing the deep social aspect of regular schooling. From teachers' perspective, teachers are not payed high enough to maintain a satisfactory lifestyle and hence they opt such sidelines to generate income. For this reason, they have to lower their standards at the school to ensure full class population at the tuition centre. In addition, students like I consider tuition centres as our saviour because at the end of the day, whatever we all say, we all aim to score incredible in professional and high school examinations. And to achieve this, parents pay heavy tuition fees for the betterment of their children, along with the regular school fee.

Why I call ourselves to be a victim of the tuition culture is because we are missing the awesome school-life which in turn is damaging our social development. The key to demotivate tuition culture is in the hands of government, parents and educationists. And here, I deliberately missed students because a boundary carved by our teachers, government and parents could only restrict us from accessing such options. Similarly, schools should respect the dignity the teaching profession and for the God's sake, they should pay them a good salary so that they could create again the environment of positive schooling in our society!

Our behaviour and the teachers!

Everyone around the country is discussing the strict law enforcement over beating of children in the schools, which is quite appreciable! But here we have missed the social dilemma behind it which has instigated such crimes. When freedom of expression is imprisoned and the teacher consider his/herself a true failure in their profession, such modes of expressing oneself's emotions was something due to happen.

When we discuss the protection of pupils, we ignore the safety and respect of the teacher completely. The news of teacher beating student is in the air but behind the curtains, the silent oppression over teachers stays hidden. When high-school students beat-up a professor at an examination centre, everything is fair! When a student bribes a teacher, everything is under control! Is this what our law communicates to us. Student behaviour at school is never considered as a point to be discussed, it was never a core part of our system. But why? Because we consider development and national success to be the production excellent doctors, engineers and accountants, not well-mannered and role model citizens. I guarantee, if we change our behaviour a little, our system changes, our culture well-defines itself and our constitution enforces indirectly. 

The sense of good behaviour and promotion of healthier environment could bring about a positive change. Teachers are a pride for a nation and they should be given honour and gratitude because a nation which respect its teachers is a nation on the track of excellence!