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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did a little research in my constituency. There is very serious wastage of manpower because of incapacity in our institutions. I found out that in my constituency, over four years, there were 406 students who got B-(minus) and above at ‘O’ Level but could not go to university because either they could not afford to pay or the facilities were not there. That is really serious wastage of manpower. When you look at the Ministry’s Budget, the amount allocated to the universities for any continuing research is dismal. So, we have universities where increasing numbers are no longer doing any research but just teaching to earn their salaries. They are not promoting knowledge in our institutions. Both at lower and higher level, we are continuing to give too little virtually of everything. Even if you look at their salaries, I had opportunity to look at them. We are giving too little in terms of remuneration to our higher education institutions. Too little of everything apparently is the catch word in the manner in which we handle our education at this level. Therefore, I wish to appeal that if we are serious with our Vision 2030, we should search our expenses in each and every Ministry and do whatever is possible to increase resource allocation to the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, if we intend to lift this country from poverty to the levels that we want. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we all know that poverty eradication begins with education. We also know that prosperity begins with education. We all agree that development begins with applied education. We have to be serious. There is somewhere we are spending money which we do not need to spend. There is somewhere we are using our resources which we need to re-allocate to promote education in this country. We are continuing to promote serious inequalities in our country because resources are not flowing to support education in all the corners and villages. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me finish by commending both Ministers for the efforts that they are making to bring reforms in the sector. I appeal to all of us in leadership positions to support education seriously if we intend to be competitive in the next 20 years from today. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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