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Dadu ranks high in ghost schools, says official
DADU, Oct 22: Influential people are using primary school buildings for
cattle pens and guest houses (Otaqs) and other purposes in far flung areas of
the district. According to a survey conducted by the National Commission for
Human Development {NCHD}, out of the total 2500 primary boys and girls schools
in Johi, Mehar, Dadu and Khairpur Nathan Shah talukas, 400 are ghost schools.
While, literacy rate is 34 per cent in this district and 74,000 children are
without schools. The population of Dadu district is 1.1 million and over 300,000
population in the western belt of district is affected by the recent flood water
of Balochistan and rain water of Kheerthar ranges mountains hence a big number
of the schools are still occupied by flood affected people and they are using
these buildings as their houses.
While most of the primary schools are
functioning in the official records of the education department but physically
these schools are closed as teachers are not performing their duties in the far-
flung areas of Kachho and Katcho and they are paying Rs2000 to Rs3000 as bribe
to their superiors to ensure uninterrupted payment of salary to
them.
RAIDS: The regional director of the Sindh Ombudsman office recently
paid surprise visit to different primary schools in taluka Dadu, and found three
primary boys schools closed for years.
The Regional Director Ombudsman,
Saeed Khan Mubejo, along with Mukhtiarkar of Dadu Mohammad Hussain Lund and a
team of print and electronic media journalists raided Primary Boys School Rawat
Leghari , Rab Rakhio, Essa Babar in Makhdoom Bilawal union council of Taluka
Dadu, and found that school buildings were closed for the last many years and
teachers were receiving salaries at their homes.
The building of Rawat
Khan Leghari primary boy's school was deteriorated, its front gate was locked
and doors of rooms along with windows were completely destroyed. Only one bench
was lying in a room. Dawn
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