Outsourcing as a policy

PUNJAB has outsourced some 18,000 primary schools to the private sector, with plans to outsource more schools. The government is also thinking about outsourcing middle and high schools as well as colleges. Will this momentum encompass universities? Let us wait and see. The outsourcing ‘movement’ is not restricted to educational institutions. Punjab has been doing this in the health sector as well. And the federal government has been talking of airports and ports in this context. Other provinces...