People of Kocho (Dasht, Turbat) complain about the only middle school in the area being ignored after it was approved to be a middle school nine years ago.
Government Middle School, Kocho, was a primary school nine years back. It had two classes and a teacher – who the locals complain comes for one month, and is missing in the other month. The government forgot to assign the school new staff and other facilities, according to a local resident. It has been seven years since contractors came to build the school building, but they stopped after laying its foundation, he added.
“We do not know what the issue has been, but we have been waiting for years to see the school’s construction complete,” he lamented.
There are some three hundred students officially admitted in the school against one teacher, said a student. He said that the up-gradation of their school did not do any good to their school.
Speaking to Minute Mirror, a local of Dasht said that every time contractors came to construct any governmental project in Dasht, they bagged all the funds released for the project and left claiming a “bad situation”.
“It is not true. They have never faced any emergency situation like getting threatened nor were they disturbed in public development projects such as schools and hospitals,” he asserted while criticizing governmental contractors.
He added that the government had never investigated if they were true to their words “because the contractors are the relatives of politicians”, he alleged.
“We want our school to be constructed and more teachers appointed so that we can get an education,” a student of the school requested the government. He said that a lack of teachers had prevented him from going to the school and forced him to look for a way to make a living.
“Whoever can afford goes to Turbat or Quetta, but we stay back because our parents cannot afford to send us out for an education,” he said with tears in his eyes.
