Rafiullah Mandokhail
ZHOB: “Despite cries over the lack of facilities, professional trainings, unsatisfactory salaries and other problems attached to the noble profession of teaching, the teachers yet playing their active role to educate the society in remote and backward area Gustoi union council”, said Safar Muhammad Mandokhail- Chairman Government Teachers Association (GTA) Zhob.
He termed the teachers an important segment of the society and said that the Education plays a very important role in the socio-economic development of a nation, enabling individuals to make informed decisions, improves their choices and develops their potentials to play productive roles in the society.
Chairman GTA further said that in the rural areas of Zhob particularly in union council Gustoi, the teachers perform their duties with honesty, sincerity and devotion in far-flung union council. There has been a drastic improvement in the recent years as all primary and secondary schools are fully functional and the teachers are present in their respective schools, he said.
Hard work and sincerity of teachers with their noble profession play an important role in increasing enrolment and retaining students in the backward union council. But the government yet to take bold and innovative steps to improve the state of education in these areas, as many schools in the area still lack facilities including boundary walls, washrooms, electricity and even drinking water.
“Due to scattered population and absence of transport facility, the teachers in mountainous and remote areas have to cover long distances on foot”, he lamented.