GHALANAI: Despite tall claims of government about promotion of education in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), several schools in Mohmand Agency lack basic f acilities.

The primary school for girls in Malik Said Kamal Banglo No.2 in Ekkaghund tehsil is one of such educational institutions that lack proper bathrooms, electricity, and furniture.

The students face difficulties owing to lack of basic facilities.

The school was built about 12 years ago. The school has more than 150 students but it has not been provided with drinking water, electricity, washrooms and proper white boards.

`About 12 primary schools for boys and girls in the area have no boundary walls and others basic f acilities,` said Hairan Momand, a local journalist. He said that government made tall claims about achieving target of 100 per cent enrolment but it failed to provide basic facilities to the schools.

A senior teacher of the school told this correspondent that even chairs and tables were not available for teachers at the schools.

`There are no proper washrooms for students and teachers in the school,` sheadded.

The teacher said that no repair work was carried in the school during the last five years.

`There is no water tank that creates problems for the students. We have arranged for whitewash of schools and repair of furniture on self-help basis,` she added.

An official of education department said that they had forwarded a letter to the political administration, director of education Fata and donor agencies to provide basic facilities to the school.

COMPENSATION: The people, who suffered losses in a suicide attack in Ekkaghund Bazaar on July 9, 2010, have complained that government has not contacted them after the tragic incident.

Bilal Khan lost seven membersof his familywhen his house collapsed in the blast.

`Neither any government official nor any other organisation has contacted us for payment of compensation, he said.

He said that his seven shops, hujra, house and a car were also destroyed in the blast. He said that he was living in a two-room house that he constructed with the help of his relatives.

Bughdadi Shah, whose shop was destroyed in the blast, said that government did not compensate him.

Noor Mohammad, whose three shops were damaged in the blast, said that government should compensate them for their losses.

An official, when contacted, said that they paid Rs300,000 each to the heirs of dead and Rs100,000 each to the injured.