Pakistan Students
Pakistan: Students forced to sit on floor and study amid biting cold
Haripur, Pakistan: In bitter cold, students of a primary school in Baitgali Union Council (UC) of Haripur district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan
were forced to study by sitting on the floor as there is a lack of furniture.
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) education department seemed to have turned a blind eye to the condition of the only school in the far-flung area, reports The Express Tribune.
Former Nazim of Baitgali UC, Shah Nawaz Khan, ex-Naib Nazim Wakeel Khan and others told The Express Tribune that schools had not been uplifted in the backward areas of the province.
They said the condition of the school displayed the state of education in the KP province.
They also said officials do not visit the school due to its presence in a mountainous region.
Incidentally, it is located at a five-hour distance from Haripur city.
Locals told the newspaper that over 200 students were enrolled in the primary school while the decrepit condition of the building was worth seeing.
They said that they had tried to draw the attention of the local committee Nazim and the councillor towards the issue, but the building’s condition has not changed in a decade.
They said politicians visit the region only during elections.
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