Kala Dhaka has only 15 functional girls’ schools

MANSEHRA: The people of Kala Dhaka have demanded of the government to revitalise the educational infrastructure in the area. “Hundreds of boys and girls schools buildings have been converted into cattle pens and those functioning are without teachers,” the tribal elders told a press conference in Oghi Wednesday.

Flanked by a dozen of tribesmen, an elder, Roshan Khan, of Nusrat Khail said the elected representatives did nothing for the development of the area and the people were deprived of all the basic amenities. “Enough is enough and now no one can deprive our children of education,” he added.

The elder said that as many as 59 Government Girls Primary Schools were constructed in the area and only 15 of them were functional and the remaining were converted into cattle pens.The same, he said, was the case with the boys’ education as many as 148 primary, 26 middle and three high schools were constructed in the area. However, only 102 primary and 15 middle schools were functioning, depriving over 80 per cent children of education.