UMERKOT: Incharge, Chief Minister’s Monitoring Committee, District Umerkot, Mohammad Saleem Nohri, has said that the root cause of education’s destruction in the district was recruitment of teachers and officials on political basis.
He told the newsmen on Tuesday that during surprise visits to many schools across district, the Monitoring Committee suspended 11 teachers and opened 166 schools out of 576 closed schools over the last five months.
Mohammad Saleem said that number of primary, middle and high schools in district Umerkot is 2295 while the number of teachers is 3402. The number of students being imparted education in these schools is 132158 and the budget of the teachers and staff of these schools is Rs15 million, he said. He said that negligence and carelessness of teachers in the schools were on rise at a time when they started monitoring in 2006.
He said that teachers, peons and guards of many schools were found doing their own business during school timings and there was no official to ask them.
Mohammad Saleem said that many officials were found sitting at their air-conditioned rooms during school times and they did not realize their responsibility in this regard.
He said that education system in the district could be raised if government provided army to them.—Agency