4 lecturers available for 800 students in Kurram Agency's college

Sadda, There are 22 positions of lecturers are still vacant in Government Degree College for Boys in Sadda, Kurram Agency where nearly 800 students are on roll and only 4 teachers are available and college is closed for last two years.

Talking to media here Sunday, the students said they were coming to the college daily from far-flung areas spending the hard-earned money of their parents, but still there were no teachers to teach them various subjects. They said that due to lack of teachers the college was closed and the future of more than 800 students was at stake.

Earlier, there were some lecturers on contract basis. When their contracts expired, the government, however, did not bother to re-employee them or arrange for other teachers, the students complained. They said they were disappointed to observe the step-motherly treatment being meted out to the Fata students by the incumbent government.

Situation of the Girls College in the area was the same as the concerned parents of the students said there was no faculty in the Government Girls Degree College, Sadda, to teach the students. They said the government, the political administration and the Fata Secretariat were aware of all these issues faced by the tribal people, yet little effort was made to tackle the problems.

The parents said on several occasions, the students and their parents registered complaints with the relevant authorities but it had never been the priority of the government to educate the masses in rural Pakistan, particularly Fata. They said the future of their children seemed bleak because of the government’s apathy in lower and central tehsils of the agency.

The parents asked the governor, federal education minister, director education at Fata Secretariat and the political administration to arrange teachers for both the colleges to save the future of their children.