Tharparkar is more than 22,000 square kilometers in area with a population of about 1.6 million living in 2,300 villages and urban settlements. It has the lowest Human Development Index of all the districts in Sindh.
Thar has a fertile desert and the livelihood of Thari people depends on rainfall agriculture. Tharparkar has the only fertile desert in the world; Thar is one of the most impoverished regions in the country.
The desert region lags behind in terms of both human development and infrastructure. Thar is currently facing another drought. Thar Desert spans over Tharparkar district, one of the four districts that come under Mirpurkhas division. Other districts in the division include Mirpurkhas, Umerkot and Sanghar., the Mirpurkhas division does not have a single public sector university to cater to the higher education needs of its residents.
People of Thar have been demanding the establishment of a public sector university in the region since a long time. Youth make up the 60% of this population. Every year students from Tharparkar get top position in Entrance examination of different universities. However, major portion of this talented youth is deprived of higher education because of poverty, financial condition and lack of any Higher Education Institution or University in Tharparkar.
Government needs to change their approach form aid packages to invest in human. We demand from Provincial and Federal Government to establish a Professional University with subjects ranging from Medical, Engineering, Social sciences and Agricultural Science. Illiteracy is the mother of all evils in our society.
By providing high-class education People of Thar will be self-sustained by the time and social fabric of this area will change. Ongoing coal project and other intact resources of Thar needs skilled and educated youth, which is to be done by establishing standard University in Tharparkar.
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