May 04, 2008	Sunday	Rabi-us-Sani 27, 1429

MANSEHRA, May 3: Provin-cial Minister for Auqaf and Hajj Nimroz Khan has warned the teachers and staff of the government schools in the tribal area of Kala Dhaka to report at work in 10 days otherwise they would be terminated from service.

“It is a pity that I could not find a single boy or girl in a population of 500,000 of Kala Dhaka who is having even the primary education. Only five per cent of the 148 boys’ schools are functional, while all the 57 girls’ schools have become ghost schools”, he said while speaking at a press conference here on Saturday.

Earlier, the minister presided over a meeting of the education department that was attended among others by the executive district officer (education) Shah Jee and assistant education officer for female Mahjabeen.

The meeting focused on the tribal area of Kala Dhaka and made important decisions to revive the 205 boys and girls schools. The minister, who also belongs to Kala Dhaka, told journalists that people of the area were still living in the Stone Age as there was no electricity, roads, schools, water, sanitation and other basic amenities of life.

“It is a fact that thousands of people, who were displaced because of Tarbela dam project, are living in a miserable condition as they were neither paid the compensation nor provided the electricity so far”, said the minister.

He said that billions of rupees had been earmarked through the Kala Dhaka development project, but unfortunately all the funds were plundered through fake documentations and that no project exited on the ground.He made it clear that the ANP government would launch an accountability process and bring all those people to book who had looted the national exchequer in the name of development of the area.