May 17, 2006	Wednesday	Rabi-us-Sani 18, 1427

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LARKANA, May 16: The district government has failed to reopen 85, primary and middle schools in the district. Realising the gravity of the situation, the district nazim ordered cancelling all deputation to reopen the closed schools.

The closure of schools was affecting education of hundreds of children.

Many of the closed schools were occupied by influential people and used as cattle pens.

The district nazim asked the officials for implementing the orders of cancelling deputation and making schools functional.

The district officer education (elementary) in a letter to the district nazim said that only 50 schools were functional while 85 closed due to shortage of teachers.

The teachers’ union was a key hindrance in the implementation of orders of the district nazim.

The union leaders were openly opposing the orders of the district nazim.

The education officer said that the teachers who were originally posted in schools lying closed but were temporarily working in other schools of the district, had now been ordered to go back to their original place of posting.

Sources in the education department said that the political interference and opposition from teachers’ union was leading to the closure of schools.

Most of the teachers are regularly drawing salary for not teaching students.

SNF:The Sindh National Front (SNF) has called for an end to military action in Waziristan and Balochistan.

A central committee meeting of the SNF, presided over by its chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, alleged that the rulers were just appeasing international forces.

The meeting took stock of the prevailing water situation in rivers and said that on one hand the government was beginning the construction of Bhasha dam while on the other Sindh was facing worst water shortage of 56 per cent.