LARKANA, Oct 3: To re-open 40 closed girls primary schools in the Mirokhan taluka, local education officials have demanded of the government to recruit teachers without any delay.

Recently, the United Villages Welfare Association pointed towards the plight of girls’ primary education in the taluka and the Sindh governor and the education minister took a serious note of the situation.

Source said the officials had moved the case to the department, seeking an early recruitment of at least 60 teachers to re-open the schools and overcome the shortage of teachers.

“We are making efforts to make all the shut schools functional”, an education official Dawn, saying that all the district officers in elementary, secondary and college sectors had been asked to prepare a detailed report regarding the status of the institutions falling in their respective jurisdictions so as to address the issues .

Aslam Bhutto, the general-secretary of the association, told Dawn on Wednesday that he had held a meeting with the district officer (elementary), who would soon undertake a tour of the areas and compile a report on how to solve the problem.