During a severe budgetary crisis, the Education Department immediately eliminated the Schools Inspection Special Allowance for Assistant Education Officers as part of its major reforms.

More than half of the existing Assistant Education Officers have been moved from administrative to teaching jobs in government schools as part of a significant restructuring plan approved by the department.

Assistant Education Officers' special allowance, which ranged from Rs25,000 to Rs30,000 per month for school inspections, will end in November. The allowance used to reach millions of rupees throughout the province; therefore, this move has angered the police.

These officers, who were originally hired to monitor schools, will now be reassigned as teachers as a result of this restructure.

Significant curricular modifications are also in the works. Middle school pupils will no longer learn geography and history in English starting with the 2025 school year. Urdu will be used to teach these topics instead. With the new policy going into effect on April 1, 2025, the current academic year will mark the end of English-medium education in these courses.

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On the other hand, the president of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Muhammad Javed Bilwani, has also urged the government to reinstate six working days for all federal and provincial institutions and agencies right away in order to boost the economy and the amount of commerce and industry.

He added that enterprises dealing with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations, which celebrate Friday as a holiday, are most impacted by the absence of financial services on Saturdays.

As a result, companies can only communicate financially with these nations four days a week.

Due to the lack of banking services, Bilwani emphasized that business centers nationwide, including retail and wholesale networks, find it difficult to deposit cash on Saturdays, which raises security concerns.