GUJRANWALA, Aug 2: Monitoring teams have declared 50 more school buildings rundown and recommended their demolition, it is learnt. According to sources, monitoring teams visited state-run primary, elementary and secondary schools in various areas of Naushera Virkan, Wazirabad and Gujranwala and submitted a report to the education department, declaring at least 50 school buildings ‘most dangerous’. The teams recommended that these buildings be demolished immediately.

It has also been learnt that the education department has gotten the provincial government’s approval to reconstruct these buildings and allocated Rs90 million for the purpose. The education department said these buildings would be reconstructed under the Punjab Education Sector Reforms Programme. It said that a decision on the demolition of run down school buildings would be taken at a meeting next week with the district coordination officer in the chair.

BAITUL MAAL GRANTS: Non-availability of computerised national identity cards (CNICs) has deprived hundreds of destitute of Baitul Mal grants because post office officials have refused to pay them without CNICs.

As a result, the affected people called a protest meeting and demanded the Baitul Mal department waive the condition of CNIC so that they could get the money. They said they should be given money on the basis of old national identity cards or verification by councillors concerned.

General Post Office Superintendent Shamim Asif said the government had issued directions that anyone without CNIC should not be given money from Baitul Mal funds.