Students left at the mercy of open sky
By Malik Irfanul Haq
2017-02-17
RAHIMYAR KHAN: Students of Government Boys High School, Rukanpur, have been getting education in the open sl(y for six days as the school building was demolished after the announcement that the motorway route would pass through the school land.
Parents have expressed their serious concern saying how the education department and the district administration have allowed the motorway authority to demolish the school building without providing an alternative land and when the annual examinations are just round the corner.
Headmaster Mansoor Majeed said the school had been established on 51 kanals of land in 1952 for elementary section which was upgraded to high school in 1981.
He said the school had two portions, one for high classes and the other for elementary classes, adding that 36 kanals of school land was given for the construction of motorway.
He said now only 15 kanals of land existed where stood the portion of elementary classes while the portion of high classes -four classrooms, a library, a computer lab, a science lab, office of headmaster and the staff room -wasdemolished.
Mr Majeed said a total of 907 students were enrolled in the school, but now only 207 students of the elementary section had classrooms.
He said the motorway authorities had the boundary wall of the school constructed on request.The headmaster said he wrote several letters to the chief minister and education officials for the construction of new school building, but to no avail.
Mr Majeed said he also met the assistant commissioner for the construction of new school building, but he took no step inthis regard.
DO (Secondary) Mian Aziz Qureshi said he had visited the school and instructed the headmaster to construct two sheds with the demolished building material for students in the winter season.
He said the construction of anew building for a large number of students was a long process.
Initially, he said, the revenue department would provide an alternative land and later the building department would prepare a design for the construction of a new school building.
