Rehan Muhammad
Zakir Khan, a 16-year-old resident of Kamran Clay in central Karam, has recently given his matric examination at Manatto High School in his locality, but it is difficult for him to pursue further education as there is no higher secondary school in the area, which is 30 km from Manatto. It is not possible for them to go to Sada Bazar at a distance and stay in a hostel there.
Zakir’s father is engaged in farming and the recent inflation does not allow him to send his son to Sadda Bazar for higher education as earlier Zakir’s elder brother also did not complete matriculation due to financial difficulties.
Talking to media, Zakir Khan said that he wants to study further, but financial difficulties and lack of nearby educational institutions in the area have become the biggest obstacles in his education. This story is not only of Zakir Khan, but of more than hundred matriculation students in Central Karam every year, out of which barely ten children can afford to study outside their locality.
Ghazni is working as a teacher in Gul Minato High School. In a conversation with TNN, he said that Manato High School is the only one in central Karam for a population of more than one lakh, where 681 children from Mandan, Zamisht, Alisharzai and Khawaidad Khel are studying. He said that if a higher secondary school or college is built for these children in the area, then these children will be able to continue their educational journey easily, while in this regard, the regional elders have demanded many times to build a higher secondary school.
In this regard, when the Chairman of Central Karam VC Mandan, Muhammad Naeem, was contacted, he said that in 2017, a higher secondary school building was constructed in Manatu and Langro Murghan with the support of the Pakistan Army, but unfortunately, so far.
The staff has not been appointed in the schools, while many requests have been made to the relevant authorities in this regard, but no hearing has been done so far.
It should be noted that according to the Education Department of District Karam, there are a total of 681 schools in the district, including 502 primary, 92 middle, 70 high, 7 higher secondary and 15 mosque schools, in which more than 80,000 children are studying in total. Among the schools, 20 schools are inactive.
According to Faridullah Mehsud, education officer of district Karam, the reason for the closure of 20 schools is the non-return of the victims, while the schools of Lower and Upper Karam have almost all kinds of facilities, the main reason for the low education rate in Central Karam is often There is a shortage of teachers in schools but to meet this shortage, the education department is recruiting new teachers every year and soon this shortage will be filled.
The education officer said about the commencement of the education in Manatu and Langro Murghan Secondary Schools that after the merger of FATA, the post-selection process is being delayed by the finance department due to the corona epidemic and now the financial problems in the province.
