MANSEHRA: Kohistan deputy commissioner during a surprise visit to the only boys degree college in the region here the other day found teacher and students missing.

The college located in Puttan area, the district headquarters of the Lower and Upper Kohistan districts, was made functional some four years ago. Over 780 students are enrolled in the college.

Talking to reporters on the occasion, DC Inamullah Khan said that students were suffering as most teachers didn’t bother to come to the college.

He said that not a single student was at the college because of the absence of teachers and other staff members. He said that he had written to the concerned authorities for necessary action against the absent teachers.

Mr Inamullah said that he visited the college on people’s complaints that teachers had been receiving salaries, but not attending to their duties. “I am astonished that even the college principal was not present there when I visited it,” he said.

“Only the watchman and the guard were present in the building and only four of the 17 faculty members were present near the college building but not in the college,” he said.

The Kohistan deputy commissioner said that he had written to the chief minister and other high-ups of the education department for necessary action against the teachers and principal of the college.

Meanwhile, Meshoqur Rehman, a local resident, said that majority of the students of the college had been getting tuitions at high rates in colleges in Mansehra and Abbottabad districts owing to absence of teachers in Kohistan college.

He disclosed that teachers had been running their own tuition centres and schools in other parts of Hazara. Mr Rehman demanded of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to take stern action against the absent teachers.

Published in Dawn February 12th , 2015

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