Govt urged to start classes at girls’ school

MANSEHRA: The residents of Oghi and its adjoining localities have demanded the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to initiate intermediate classes at the Government Higher Secondary School for Girls in the Danda-Kholian area of Karori Union Council.

Led by former deputy tehsil nazim Oghi Mohammad Younas, a group of locals told reporters in Oghi on Saturday that four years had passed after the construction of extra rooms for the intermediate section, but the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Department was yet to appoint teachers and fulfil other formalities.

“Most schoolgirls quit education following matriculation as their parents cannot afford to send them to colleges in urban parts of Hazara,” Younas said. “Despite the construction of the building and extra rooms for the intermediate section, the academic session couldn’t be initiated over the last four years,” he said.

He said former chief minister Pervez Khattak had upgraded Government High Sc­hool for Girls Danda-Kholian to the intermediate level, and released funds for construction of the building. “We would take to the streets if our just demand was not met,” Younas said.