PESHAWAR:TheKhyberPakhtunkhwa Assembly was informed on Wednesday that the ministerial staff members outnumbered teachers of the most Working Foll(s Grammar Schools functioning under the Workers Welfare Board in the province.

According to the written reply given by the labour and manpower department to the question of JUI-F MPA Mufti Said Tanan, 48 WFG schools functions in different parts of the province with the number of ministerial staff members, including clerics, watchmen and peons, being more than their teachers.

Around 23,000 students are enrolled inWFG schools for which the federal government releases funds through the WWB.

The session was chaired by Deputy Speaker Prof Mehar Taj Roghani.

According to the documents, 827 ministerial staff members work in the 24 women WGF schools, while the same number of schools has employed 751 women teachers.

Also, the number of ministerial teachers at 24 boys` schools stands at 869, while the same number of institution has employed 673 teachers.

The documents reveal that only three women teachers work in the women WFG School Thal Wazir, while 30 ministerial staff members have been appointed for them.

Similarly, 62 ministerial staff members have been appointed for 42 teachers in the women WFG School Peshawar No 1.

More than double the ministerial staff members of teachers work in the male WFG School Peshawar No 2 as 54 nonteaching staff members work with only 24 teachers serving.

Around Rs4 billion was utilised duringthe lastfour years under the head ofsalaries, transport, books and uniforms.

`It is astonishing that the number of non-teaching staff in most schools is higher than the teachers`,` Said Mufti Janan, the mover of the question, said while commenting on the information shared by the department.

He said nowhere in the world could be seen that the support staff outnumbered the teaching`s.

Responding to the criticism, information minister Shah Farman said a lot of irregularities were committed in the Workers Welfare Board affairs in the past.

He said billions of rupees worth of corruption in the WWB and illegal appointments had destroyed such schools.

The minister said the National Accountability Bureau had arrested many WWB officers and that several of its references were pending with the accountability courts against them.

On the insistence of the Mr Janan, the matter was referred to the relevant committee of the house for detailed discussion.The house through a unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the atrocities against Muslims in Myanmar and demanded of the United Nations and international human rights organisations to take note of them.

The joint resolution tabled by finance minister Muzafar Said was signed by several ministers and MPAs.

The resolution read that the Muslims were brutally killed, while their houses were torched in Myanmar but the UN and international organisations were silent about it.

It demanded of the UN to immediately convene a meeting and take measures to stop brutalities against the innocent Muslims.

The resolution was passed unanimously when the chair put it to the vote.

The opposition walked out of the session against the chair declaring her role as discriminatory towards it.

Thereafter, the issue of the lack of quorum surfaced, for the second consecutive day, prompting the chair to adjourn the session until Oct 4.