LARKANA:The teachers and students of Government Primary School, Umrani village, held a protest demonstration in the village on International Day of Education on Monday against lack of required facilities in their school where 400 students have been enrolled. They shouted slogans in favour of their just demand that all essential facilities should be provided in the school immediately so that little male and female students could be able to get education in a proper manner.

School Head Master Inayatullah Pathan, teachers Atta Hussain Junejo, Mutahardin Narejo, Abdul Fatah Mugheri and students Atif Jatoi, Arslan, Ali Raza, Shafique and others complained that there are no essential facilities since the birth of their school which include electricity, ceiling fans, furniture, cold drinking water facility, classrooms, washrooms and so forth. They said as many as 400 students are enrolled but there are only ten benches for them to sit which is impossible. They said there were no chairs even for the teachers to sit on and children have to sit down on earth to get education in this computer science era to compete in the world.

They said several complaints have been made to the higher education department authorities but all in vain. They said that either the school should be closed down if the rulers want the villagers to remain illiterate or at least required facilities must be provided to hundreds of male and female students without loss of further time.

Meanwhile, it was learnt that about two lac children in Larkana are street children at the moment who also do not go to schools and in the entire Sindh their number is over 6.6 million (over 3.2 million are boys and over 3.4 are girls). Since 2007 as many as 7000 schools have closed. As many as 1.6 million children study under open sky or tree shades without basic facilities which means they don’t have school buildings, furniture and other material.