MULTAN, Oct 4: An NGO which contracted to start intermediate classes at a local school has “abandoned” the project allegedly after taking fee from a large number of students.

On Thursday, parents of several students visited the Multan district education office (colleges) to register their complaint that NGO Ujala took fee for ICS and other courses which they had to start in the Islamia High School, Daulat Gate under the afternoon school system. But when the children visited the school to attend classes, nobody was there.

Ujala district coordinator Ahmar Salman Hashmi told this correspondent that they could not start ICS classes as they had not yet purchased computers. Regarding classes of pre-medical and pre-engineering, he said the organization wanted to start all classes simultaneously.

Islamia High School headmaster Muhammad Munnir said that he did not know why the organization had suddenly disappeared as it never informed the school administration about its plans.

He said the NGO distributed prospectus among students free of cost in order to attract students. Later it started taking fee without arranging teaching staff and other facilities required to start classes.

The NGO has contracted to start afternoon classes in 12 other government schools as well. — NAUMAN