GHALANAI: The volunteers of Shaheed Banda Youth Welfare Organisation, Mohmand Agency have constructed more than two-kilometre long shingle road on self-help basis.

The local people said that the volunteers constructed the road from Shaheed Banda Chowk to Hakeem Kor. Gul Zada, the president of the organisation, said that people were facing difficulties to use the road during rain. He said that the volunteers collected donations from the villagers and started work on road to resolve the longstanding problem of the area.

“We collected donations from ours villagers and hired 10 tractors and one loader for this shingle road,” said Mr Zada. He said that they worked for one day in which about 20 volunteers along with villagers took part and completed two-kilometre shingle road.

Shaheed Banda is a far-flung and backward area of Lower Pandiali tehsil with low literacy rate.

The residents of the area said that the only primary school for boys in the locality was constructed in 1980 while the primary school for girls was built in 2007. There is no middle and high school in the area due to which most of the students say good bye to their education after passing the primary level.

They said that the nearest high school to Shaheed Banda was at a distance of about 15 kilometres in Matta area. Also, there is no health centre in the area owing to which patients die on the way to Peshawar hospitals.

Mr Zada said that most of the students in Shaheed Banda were saying goodbye to education after passing primary school examinations as there was no middle and high school in their area.

Published in Dawn March 9th , 2015

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