LAKKI MARWAT School shifted on parents demand
F.P. Report LAKKI MARWAT: On the strong insistence of the parents and residents of the area officials of Elementary and Secondary Education Department (ESED) Lakki shifted the Government Primary School No. 1 Haqdad Abad Lakki city to the newly hired building from the old and decayed rented building. In new building preferably in good condition having basicfacilities like drinking water, lavatory, veranda, boundary wall and electricity hundreds of children and teachers will now not face any hardship or danger to their lives due to deteriorating condition of the building. The school was set up in 1980 and since then it is functioning in rented building as previous governments and political elite of the area did not take any practical steps to construct a building for the school. During the last regime of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal provincial government declared the school as shelter-less on the request of the then member provincial assembly Zafrullah Khan Marwat and approved an amount of nearly Rs 1.5million for the building. But surprisingly former authorities of education department then called schools and literacy department did not take any notice of the area peoples' protest and selected a site for the school building at a far distance from the locality where Government Primary School No. 1 Haqdad Abad actually existed. The new building for the shelter-less Haqdad Abad primary school was built in Mujahid town and a year after it was converted to the status of a newly established primary school called as Government Primary School Mujahid Town Lakki. Former officials of the education department who were behind the selection of the site situated not in Haqdad Abad locality were of the view that inhabitants of Haqdad Abad area had refused to provide one or two kanal piece of land free of cost for the school hence they had two options one to surrender the amount to the government exchequer and second to select the present place where new building was erected (now awarded the status of GPS Mujahid Town Lakki). Lack of people's will to donate a piece of land for the school and unseen hands of political elite of Lakki City to force former officials concerned to select the place in Mujahid town deprived residents of Haqdad Abad locality to have a building infrastructure for the primary school. Owing to the area people particularly parents' concerns and worries about the wretched and poor condition of the building, the school's administration approached the local officials of the Elementary and Secondary Education Department and apprised them that the deplorable and deteriorating condition of the rented building could turn into a massive grave of hundreds of children anytime.
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