RAWALPINDI, Jan 8: The students of Government Pehlvi High School Faizabad are facing a host of problems as their institution lacks even the basic infrastructure. The school built in 1948 has been declared dangerous by Public Works Department (PWD). It has no laboratory, drinking water and other essentials.

Over 300 students enrolled in the school are being taught by a small faculty of 16 teachers who usually combine the students of different classes and deliver a single lecture to them.

The primary level students have to sit on the floor in the absence of benches. Since there is no toilet in the school, the students are compelled to use the bathrooms of the adjacent inter-city bus station.

The school consists of just six rooms having a covered area of 28 marlas, out of which about five marlas have been allegedly encroached upon by a religious seminary.

The sorry state of affairs at the school is not only belying the much-trumpeted slogan, ‘Literate Punjab’, of the provincial government, but also sketches a bad picture of Rawalpindi which is otherwise known as the most literate district in the province.

The executive district officer (Education), Mohammad Yousaf, was not available for comments.