The owners of a plot forcibly locked up Government Primary School No 3 in Garibabad locality of the town asking teachers and students to teach and study in other schools.
On the intervention of the local police, it was made functional on Wednesday. Ali Muhammad Bhutto and Shahnawaz Bhutto, owners of the plot, claimed while talking to media that they donated the plot 15-years ago on the condition that they would be given jobs which was accepted by the then education department bosses in Larkana but despite passage of so many years they have been continuously denied of their right.
They said the former education director kept us on false promises, while the present government had appointed a number of people in the education department who are near and dear ones of the political persons ignoring merit, but they had been regularly deprived of what they committed years ago. They said they knocked the doors of the Sindh High Court which also issued directions to the director education, Larkana, but he even did not obey the orders of the court, hence finding no way they had no other option but to lock up the school to force the rulers to give them jobs for donating the plot.
Over 200 boys and girls are enrolled in this primary school. School Headmaster Shahnawaz Mahar lodged a report against the owners at Naundero police station which intervened quickly and the school was allowed to function. Abdul Rahman Supro said that teachers or students could not provide jobs and locking the school would render the students illiterate, which would never be tolerated at any cost.
Supro further said that they had informed the higher education authorities in Larkana about this lingering issue. Deputy District Officer Anees-ur-Rahman Jalbani visited the school and said that action of the alleged owners of the plot was illegal.
