The Daanish school system was initiated in 2010 in Punjab, Pakistan to provide quality education to underprivileged students. There are currently around 1.5 million students enrolled across four operational schools in Rahim Yar Khan, Hasilpur, Chishtian, and Mianwali. The schools follow strict admission criteria and provide facilities like labs and dorms. While proponents argue it promotes social mobility, critics say it wastefully spends billions that could support improving existing public schools which educate most students. There are also reports of lack of transparency and violations in project spending. Recommendations include continuing schools but reducing expenses, and focusing improvements on mainstream public schools rather than opening new Daanish schools in every district.

1. DAANISH SCHOOLS
Presented By:
Aakash Budhrani 11723
Rohit Chawla 11503
Anna Hemani 11488
Yamna Shumas 11834
Anna Noorali 12106

2. Introduction
Facts and figures:
 65% of the population falls in age bracket of
16 to 35 years.
 Illiteracy rate of Punjab is 56%, and Pakistan
on the whole has 49%.
 This rate is the highest in South Asia.

3. Daanish schools
 When did idea the of a Daanish School
system stem?
 The concept of Daanish School system was
initiated on 18th January 2010.
 the idea of such system took got place right
after the assassination of then Governor
Punjab SalmanTaseer.
 This is why Government of Punjab called it a
substitute of “Madaras”, as proper religious
education is also provided there.

4. Introduction
 The objective of system is to cut the class differential,
promote the underprivileged, and provide them
opportunities to have quality education.
 Provide the educational facilities to the poor of the poorest
and needy ones.
 In order to ensure that needy, downtrodden, and deserving
are inducted in the school, there are some strict rules for
admission in the School.

5. introduction
RULES ARE:
 Entry test should be cleared by student
 Income of parents shall be not be above $100
 Parents have to be illiterate
 Student shall have one if not, both mother
and father.

6.  In illiterate societies its belief at large that
female shall not get education.
 Therefore to overcome this problem, certain
committees have been formed by management,
in order to convince the parents and beware
them about the importance of education.
 Furthermore, these committees address the
concerns of parents regarding School system.

7.  This project cost around 2.5Billion rupees initially, and
by the time it will be increasing.
 Currently there are around 1.5 million students enrolled
in Daanish Schools.
 90% is attendance rate.
 Around 81,000 teachers appointed in schools.
 This makes ratio of student to teacher 20:1.

8. LONG TERM SUSTAINABILTY OF
DAANISH:
 Government has decided to open a Daanish
School in every district of Punjab, Whereas there
are only 4 operational currently.
 In the last tenure Government of Punjab spent
9 times more than PML-Q`s Government.

9.  Critics argue: why so much money is allocated
and lavishly being spent on the Daanish Schools
rather taking care of flood affected schools of
Punjab.
 Above argument woke in light of the fact that
from 6500 devastated Schools, 2000 can be
developed those affected by flood.
 Indeed these affected schools require only Rs.2
billions, to become functional.

10.  Additionally, around 21% of the students are
deprived of the basic facilities.
 Recently a program has been launched for
new teachers, however, this is again a
mismanagement since the all existing
teachers are untrained.

11. Locations of school
 Daanish school are situated in RYK, hasilpur, chishtian & mianwali which are in
operation.
 Few others that are also in under construction at attock, DGK and fazilpur.
 In Rahim yar khan
 Daanish school Inaugurated by mian shahbaz sharif..
 114 acres land .
 Grounds for in-door and out-door games, modern info technology lab and
many other facilities.
 In RYK, they have 321 boys and 284 girls.
 In Hasilpur
 Hasilpur is a city in bahawalpur district in southern punjab.Its situated
between satluj river and indian border.
 Daanish Schools (Boys & Girls) at Hasilpur District Bahawalpur have started
functioning since January, 2011.
 Danish school in hasilpur has labs, library, art room and separate dorms for
boys and girls. For interaction between students they try to do activities like
vocational enhancing game etc.
 In hasilpur, they have 317 boys and 261 girls.

12.  In chishtan
 It is situated 37km distance from district headquarter
bhawalnagar.
 district bhawalnagar is an underdeveloped area.
 Quality education was not affordable.
 Daanish school create opportunity for residents of chishtan.
 In chishtan, they have 302 boys and 282 girls.
 In harnoli
 Daanish Schools (Boys and Girls) at Harnoli District Mianwali
have started functioning since May, 2012.
 In the Daanish Schools, both students and teachers
compulsorily stay at campus
 From dawn to dusk, a busy schedule of curricular and co-
curricular activities is followed that would result in personality
and character building.
 In harnoli, they have 103 boys and 94 girls.

13. Cost structure
 In Daanish school around Rs.16000 per month spent on each
child.
 In government school less than 1600 had been spent on each
child.
 Daanish school in RYK costs Rs 805.60million.
 Daanish school in chishtan has 440 students which are in
bhawalnagar costs of Rs 835.25 million.
 Daanish school in hasilpur costs of Rs 847.71 million.
 Daanish schools in harnoli has started in operation since
may.2012 that costs of Rs. 668.06 million.
• Rs. 2 billion has allocated for to construct eight more
branches in Punjab.

14.  The literacy rate in Punjab is very low. In such
situation, the idea of opening Danish Schools is
strikingly excellent as the main objective of
establishing Danish Schools in poor areas is to
provide good educational facilities there so that
the children there can get better education and do
something better for their future.
 To make this successful, such system should be
devised that there should not be any political
interference in the affairs of Daanish Schools.

15. Potential:
 Mian Shahbaz Sharif has intended to launch the
Daanish School system all over the country. He said
“strong Pakistan can be built by making sure that poor
children get modern education and Daanish Schools
will bring prosperity in the society ”.
 Mian Sharif has criticized the people who are opposing
Daanish Schools Project.
 The Government of Punjab is planning to establish 6
Daanish Schools in Punjab. In Bhawalpur and
Rahimyar Khan, two Daanish schools have been made
operative, where the third is due to be officially
launched in Bahawalnagar.

16.  The literacy rate in Punjab is very low. In such situation,
the idea of opening Danish Schools is strikingly excellent
as the main objective of establishing Danish Schools in
poor areas is to provide good educational facilities so that
the children there can get better education and do
something better for their future.
 If the desired results are achieved from Danish Schools by
the Punjab Government then such system can be spread
to entire province and whole country can follow it.
 To make this successful, such system should be devised
that there should not be any political interference in the
affairs of Daanish Schools.

17. Criticism:
 Analysts reject the Daanish schools action to be a
showy burden, which will waste valued resources
that can be used much more carefully.
 The estimated cost of each Daanish School campus
is around Rs. 1 billion and requires an estimated Rs
21 million annual operating expenditures.

18.  They say that such projects like Daanish schools
could not bring any meaningful impact on the
overall education and literacy rate of Pakistan.
 Analysts suggest that Government should focus on
giving facilities to millions of students in existing
public schools instead of spending billions of rupees
and resources on expensive schools, which can
provide very little to the school-going population.

19. Transparency Issues:
 News of violations of rules with corruption in
the construction of mega Daanish School
project are there.
 The auditors of Punjab had pointed out gross
violations of rules in performance of Daanish
Schools Project under former managing
directorYousuf Kamal.

20.  The former MD and DCOs had been releasing funds
to these contractors, which came into attention
when the auditors of Government of Punjab called
“gross violations”. As a result of this, authorities
stopped giving funds.
 A meeting on the same issue was held at the
minister’s secretariat and in the meeting it was
decided to run the project with rules and regulation
to improve mistakes.

21. Recommendation
 If we recommend “discontinue the Schools” in
light out the valid arguments by critics and the
huge expenses on the students.
THEN what should we do:
 With 1.5 millions School going students
 25,000 teachers
 100s of acres of land
 Gigantic amount already spent
 Expenditure on building the Schools in different
areas.

22.  we recommend to continue Schools and cut
the expenses significantly, and make the over
spending even on the students studying in
Government through the Punjab.
 And further we reject the proposal of
Government to make one Daanish School in
EACH district of Punjab.This will be
something like digging ditch for oneself, as
average spending is 16,000 on each student..

23.  we recommend to continue Schools and cut
the expenses significantly, and make the over
spending even on the students studying in
Government through the Punjab.
 And further we reject the proposal of
Government to make one Daanish School in
EACH district of Punjab.This will be
something like digging ditch for oneself, as
average spending is 16,000 on each student..

24.  And further we reject the proposal of
Government to make one Daanish School in
EACH district of Punjab.This will be
something like digging ditch for oneself, as
average spending is 16,000 on each student.
 If the average spending on student in entire
punjab is about 1600, and in Daanish it 16,000
Government must develop the devastated
Schools and spend even amount on the
students that can be around 5000.

25. Thank You 