LARKANA: The verbal directions of Larkana Division Regional Director (RD) to shift Government Boys Degree College (GBDC) in Naundero to Government Boys Model High School (GBMHS) has created wide unrest among thousands of students. Government intends to establish Hotel Management School in GBDC, it was learnt on Saturday.
Future of approximately 2000 students will be at stake if the verbal order is implemented. When this Scribe contacted the RD Liaquat Ali Ghangro, he said that he had no knowledge of establishing Hotel Management School but he had been directed to shift the GBDC to GBMHS because the college badly needs repair and renovation owing to water logging and salinity problems.
The college is located near Rice Canal and its building is under constant threat because no earth-filling was made before its construction in 1997 and it was constructed without proper planning. Ghangro said he had written a letter to Karachi College Education Secretary on November 19 with reference to the Education Minister’s directives during his visit to the GBDC on October 09 that the campus will be shifted on temporary basis to GBMHS until the repair of the college building for which permission may be granted.
Larkana Education Works Engineer RD Phero Mal had suggested to the minister during his visit that the college building requires earth filling and major repairs due to water-logging issue.
District Education Officer Akhtar Korejo said that he had neither been given a verbal nor written order for shifting of GBDC to GBMHS.
GBDC Principal Nazir Abro said that he had submitted an application to the minister for repair and renovation of the college but shifting of college will create a lot of problems for the students.
GBMHS Principal Manzoor Mangi said that the school was built in 2013 and its SNE was also approved where 20 teachers are posted and 500 students are enrolled having 16 classrooms which are insufficient for 2000 students. He said the move will be resisted as Government Boys Higher Secondary School is already overcrowded hence education of his students will also be hanging in the balance.
