LARKANA: Fate of over 200 girl students, who cleared their matriculation examination, is hanging in balance while the issue of shortage of teaching staff of Benazir Bhutto Government Girls Degree College (BBGGDC), Naundero, has not yet been resolved.
The girls have been forcibly admitted by the Principal, Government Girls Higher Secondary School (GGHSS), Naundero, in her school without their consent despite the fact that a separate girls college has been established in 2015 nearby. She has also been accused of not giving required certificates to the girls to seek admission elsewhere.
The Sindh High Court Hyderabad had given a verdict that where boys and girls degree colleges are available within a radius of 2.5 kilometers, all boys and girls will be enrolled in these colleges for higher secondary education and the status of higher secondary schools (both boys and girls) will be withdrawn.
In compliance to this decision, the Director, College Education, Larkana Region, wrote a letter to the Secretary, College Education, Government of Sindh, Karachi, on 13.11.2017, requesting him to withdraw the status of girls higher secondary school and boys higher secondary school, Naundero, in compliance to the SHC verdict, and those schools be re-designated as Government Girls/Boys High School and the same schools be barred for further enrollment for class XI and XII henceforth but due to the bad governance no action has yet been taken thus the provincial government is constantly violating the SHC order putting the future of girls students at stake despite imposition of education emergency by the Sindh Chief Minister in the province. These higher secondary schools were upgraded as per policy of 1989 on need basis when there was shortage of colleges for male and female students.
The parents have also demanded of the Sindh government that after withdrawal of higher secondary school status of these schools, all associate, assistant professors, lecturers and subject specialists be posted in Girls and Boys Degree Colleges to discharge their legal and moral duties efficiently for which they are paid out of taxpayers money and vacant posts in these schools must also be filled for proper education as Education is the third eye of any developing nation.