The Nawabshah district education officer has issued directives to conduct an inquiry after reports of a ghost primary school for girls in Azeem Colony.
The efforts the Sindh government says it is doing to advance education in the province under the ‘education emergency’ are tarnished by rumors that ghost schools are prevalent in the state.
Another ghost school is the Government Girls Primary School in Lal Bux Mahtam, which closed a long time ago as a result of the relevant authorities’ indifference. But even when they work from home, teachers are still paid.
The school was founded in 2004 to meet the educational needs of the local girls in the village of Lal Bux Mahtam, which is close to Rohri. Nasir Hussain Shah, the current minister of transportation and a former district nazim, gave it his official opening.
The school’s modest beginnings saw no more than twenty girls enrolled. Over time, however, enrollment increased to approximately 100 students. Three teachers were initially assigned by the education department to the school; however, one of them subsequently took a leave of absence, leaving the other two to supervise the pupils.
By 2014, there was just one instructor teaching at the school, according to Ghulam Qadir Mahtam and Nazir, who live nearby. This teacher was unable to instruct every student in classes one through five. As a result, parents began removing their kids from the school, and eventually all of the pupils had been transferred to different Rohri schools. The school hasn’t been open for business for the last two years.
Several attempts to get in touch with Mangi were unsuccessful. Four days in a row, her workplace was visited, but she was not in. After having earlier agreed to deliver the message to her, Jawed Akhtar Lashari, her office assistant, questioned, “How can I give her your message when she is not in the office?” Requesting to remain anonymous, one of her clerks stated that she is rarely in the office during business hours. “However, she sometimes visits office late in the evening for an hour or so,” he continued.
Following this, Abdul Aziz Hakro, the director of secondary education, was contacted but was unable to provide much assistance. “She [Zaibun Nisa Mangi] works according to her own will,” he admitted.
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