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| November 19, 2001 | Monday | Ramazan 3, 1422 |
Students suffer due to teachers shortage
THATTA, Nov 18: Some 1,379 students, majority of them from science group, are suffering due to shortage of teaching staff in three degree and one intermediate science college of Thatta district since last couple of years.
According to a survey conducted by this scribe, only 32 teachers are posted against sanctioned staff strength of 106 in these four colleges i.e. Thatta Degree College for boys, Thatta Degree College for girls, Sujawal Degree College for boys and Sujawal Intermediate Science College for girls.
Due to the acute shortage of teachers, the students of these colleges have not been able to complete even 30 per cent of their courses though 65 per cent time of their academic year has passed.
When contacted, Dost Mohammad Qureshi, principal of Thatta degree college (boys), said it was impossible for only 16 assistant professors and lecturers to cope with completing the courses of 700 students of three faculties of science, arts and commerce.
The sanctioned strength of teaching staff of this college is 39, he said and desperately added, “Only one lecturer is assigned in the college to take B.Com classes.”
The college was established in 1962 and upgraded as degree college in 1968.
Qamar Siddiqui, the principal of Sujawal Degree College (boys) said the college was established in 1967 and recently upgraded from intermediate to degree College on November 1.
Having enrolment of 300 students, majority of them in science group, this college too faces teachers’ shortage as only six teachers are appointed here against the sanctioned strength of 27 teachers.
At Degree College Thatta (girls) established in 1984, its principal Ms Shamsunnisa Uqaili told Dawn having the enrolment of 369 students, this college too was facing similar situation since only seven teachers were taking the classes against the sanctioned posts of 27 teachers.
Established in 1990, Sujawal intermediate Science College for girls has only three lecturers against the sanctioned posts of 13.
Its principal Ms. Naseem-e-Sahar said the institution was accessible for the coastal belt inhabitants who have to resist cultural conservatism for sending their girls to the town for higher education, but due to non availability of teaching staff, the college was yielding no positive results.
Some parents from rural areas of Thatta district told this correspondent if this position continued they would prefer to withdraw their children from the colleges.
They said in the absence of teaching staff, it was futile to send their children to the colleges of the two towns.
When asked about the reasons behind teachers shortage, the principals opined the commission pass lecturers and assistant professors were reluctant to join institutions in small towns like Thatta and Sujawal and whenever posted there under compulsion, they always managed to get themselves transferred.
KILLED: A pickup driver, Sohrab Brohi, 30, was shot dead when he resisted robbery bid near Mehran Farm on National Highway, some 56 kilometres away from here, on Saturday.
Police sources said two robbers impersonating as passengers hired a Toyota pickup (KH-7757) from Thatta for Gharo.
On nearing Mehran Farm, the robbers at gunpoint attempted to disembark the driver and take away the vehicle.
Sohrab vehemently resisted, as a result of which one of the robbers shot him dead.
The robbers then tied both the hands of Dilshad Brohi, cleaner of the pickup, and fled throwing him and the deceased in thick bushes along the road.
Police said the deceased was a resident of Jungshahi and had recently purchased the pickup on retirement of his father from Pakistan Steel. Case has been registered with Gharo police and inquiry is under way.
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