TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 20: The future of hundreds of students of the Government High School Chak 670/11 GB, some

10 kilometres from Pirmahal, is at stake due to shortage of teachers.

The school management council told newsmen that more than 700 students have been enrolled with the institution. Posts of nine teachers - three of science subjects, an art, an Arabic and four others - have been lying vacant for the last six months.

It claimed that some of the teachers were transferred on political pressure to other schools and the education department made no replacement.

When contacted, headmaster Rana Dilber Husain said he had repeatedly written to the high ups while the management council had also made attempts for filling in of vacant posts but to no avail.

District Education Officer (secondary schools) Mian Abdul Hafeez said whenever ban on transfers was lifted, the teachers would be transferred to the school.

He said the school management councils had already been empowered by the education department to spend funds at their disposal for the promotion of education and recruitment of teachers on an ad hoc basis.