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Teacher attempts suicide over transfer
« on: February 24, 2011, 11:35:31 AM »
Teacher attempts suicide over transfer
KARACHI: It is difficult to imagine that a teacher’s transfer from one school to another could propel her to attempt suicide. But under these dire economic crises where inflation has broken all previous records even the slightest threat to a professional’s line of work can encourage him or her to take such steps. The tragic incident occurred on the outskirts of Murad Memon Goth, located in a lower-class area, where a government primary school teacher Shama, wife of Habibullah Memon, set herself on fire after spilling kerosene oil on her. The lady who was the soul bread earner for her family received 60 percent burn injuries. According to her associates, the issue was very petty, as the education department had ordered her transfer to another school. “We don’t know why she took this step,” they said. However experts and sociologists expressed it was the ultimate outcome of the economic depression, which is being faced by the country’s 98 percent working class and due to which a lot of suicide cases are being witnessed on daily basis. The area police saw the incident as normal as they established that she was depressed by her transfer and colleagues. SHO Shafqat Chandio said that she was not taking charge of her new post at the government primary school at Malir Jam Goth and kept going to the old one where she used to interfere in other teacher’s matters. The teachers were all fed up of her. He informed that when the lady reached her school on Wednesday morning, her colleagues closed the school’s door on her and did not permit her to enter. He said over the refusal, Shama brought a tin of kerosene oil from her home, spilled it over herself and set fire in front of the school building. On hearing the hue and cry her colleagues put out the fire and shifted her to a local private hospital and later to Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) for treatment. The doctors informed that she had suffered 60 percent burn injuries and her condition was critical. Shama’s school colleagues rejected the police claims that they closed their doors on her saying that the education department had transferred her 10 months ago why did she keep coming to the school then. atif raza.Daily time.