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This paper has been written in the background of proposed sustainable development conference to be held in September 2015 at UN headquarters with cooperation of the international community. It is new proposed set of comprehensive and universal sustainable development goals (SDGs).These seventeen goals are ambitious and an extension of eighth millennium development goals. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all is fourth proposed goal of SDGs. Public private partnership is worthwhile and direly needed to realize the transformative vision of the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs) as concluded in the study.

Promoting Private Schools in Rural areas of the country is being implemented by national as well as provincial Education Foundations with collaboration of the World Bank. This is one of such initiative under Education Reform Program that aims to address both the challenges of school participation and student learning in poor, rural and unserved communities of the region. This study gives an understanding of public and private sector institutional arrangements for educational development in the region. This study also presents insights from the personal observation of the authors; a field survey conducted during empirical work and other reliable primary data set. The study explores the ideas that public sector institutions are mostly mismanaged and have lowest capacity to deliver according to the need of the hour particularly for rural unserved households. In order to impart quality education to underprivileged public private partnership can be enhanced up to colleges and university level for the educational/ socio economic development of the country. This initiative will also strengthen Government’s efforts to impart compulsory and free education to each and every child of the province under article 25-A of Islamic republic of Pakistan.

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The paper has been developed in background of proposed sustainable development conference held in mid of July 2015 at Idris Ababa (Africa) with cooperation of the international community. The theme of conference was “Finance for Development” and   focused to mobilize available resources and to invest in agriculture, energy, communication, health environment and human resource development.

The best possible use of available resources particularly tax resources for investments and further development is need of the hour. There is different potential of economies but it is concluded by the experts that in developing countries like Pakistan tax revenue can be increased from 2 to 5 percent of GDP so that we must work together with international community to generate the resources needed for the transformative vision of the proposed sustainable development Goals.

Pakistan like other emerging economies are facing unsustainable fiscal deficits due to increasing non development expenditure every year, difficulties in payment  debt service charges due to leakages in revenue collection, and declining conditional external assistance of developed countries due to mismanagement in available resources. The main objectives of the study are to review the current strategies of resources mobilization through introducing best tax policies that should be fair, equitable and create minimal disincentives for economic efficiency, and initiate tax administrative reforms. This study fulfills the need of a separate study on land revenue system of Pakistan and is net addition in economics literature at national / international level. The study also suggests dynamic policy insights to increase in national pool of resources. The improvement in prevailing revenue system and increasing revenue receipts will be helpful in economic growth and development. 

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The year 2015, is a year in which countries will shape a new development agenda in United Nations Conference to be held at its headquarter in the next month September 2015, and nations will reach a global agreement of 17 points for the welfare of human beings. The first component of agenda of new post 2015 is to decrease poverty in its all forms everywhere; secondly to end hunger by achieving food security and improved nutrition and thirdly to ensure healthy lives and promote well being for all at all ages. As a strategy to overcome two problems poverty and food security the increase in agricultural production is the right answer and healthy life of the people is also indirectly associated with pure, cheep and timely food supply in market.

Pakistan at present is faced with a serious food crisis due to population explosion and under-developed state of agriculture like others developing economies. The overall population growth is more than two percent in urban and two to three percent in rural. The estimated population of Pakistan is 200 million and it will be doubled in 2050. The rapid increase in population needs increase in food supply which is only possible through increase in agricultural productivity at large. The study contributes significantly in the existing body of knowledge on this subject. The major issues have been summed up by examining it through in-depth analysis using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study concludes that supply of important inputs seed, fertilizer and pesticides is inadequate in bowing seasons, which harms per acre yield and needs dire attention of policy makers for the welfares of the growers to increase their income and to reduce the rate of ultra poverty and also for the food security of the rapid increasing population and spreading malnutrition related dieses in urban centers of the country. 

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