Attempts to privatize the alleged school have been made before—File: Photo
Karachi: At the beginning of the newly established government of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in Sindh, preparations were started to vacate a public school built on a property worth billions of rupees in the Federal B area of Karachi overnight and hand it over to the mafia. are
Paperwork has been formally started in connection with the transfer of Muniba Government Boys Primary and Lower Secondary School to private hands along with the students, established on a plot worth billions of rupees in Federal B area.
It is being told that there is pressure from some quarters on the Director School Education Primary and Secondary that Muniba Government School should be transferred to a nearby government school, on which a school transfer report has also been prepared from the concerned officer of Gulbarg Town.
The above report states that there are 7 teachers and two non-teaching staff in Muniba Government School located on Pakistan Highway in Federal B Area Block 6, there are 135 students studying in the school who are being forcibly transferred to another school.
It is being feared that this school will be handed over to the mafia by taking advantage of the Eid holidays, but with the transfer of the school, this property worth billions of rupees will go into private ownership and so will the poor children educated in the school. Can also be deprived of education.
It should be noted that on October 1, 1972, under the policy of nationalization of educational institutions, this school was also taken into government custody. Attempts have been made at the surface.
The first attempt to relocate the students was made on November 15, 2010, when the school was relocated through a notification signed by former Education Secretary Alamuddin Balu.
After the said action, student protests started outside the school, students had organized classes on the Pakistan highway and civil society pressure started coming. .
The school education department later had to withdraw the notification, after which another attempt was made to transfer the school in 2018, both times to the owner of a well-known Nihari house in the Federal B area, but failed.
Now it is being told that this time another private party is preparing to hand over the school.
Director School Education Primary and Secondary Yar Muhammad Baladi told Express that he has received information regarding the transfer of the school, but we are reviewing all the legal aspects in this regard.
Meanwhile, in the report received by the department from the concerned officer of Gulbarg Town a few days ago, it is said that through a previous notification, when an attempt was made to transfer this school, the DOE (Elementary) Mail and A. A formal anti-corruption inquiry was conducted against DOE Gulbarga Town, after which the two officers were suspended and the school transfer notification was canceled on January 16.
At the same time, protests and communication with the higher authorities were also started by the civil society to save the school, at this time the school is running in the present place. has gone
The report also states that there is no other public school within 1000 meters of this school, to which this school and its students can be transferred, adding that it is extremely difficult to transfer poor students from the school. It will be a difficult process.
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