Students lament govt’s reneged promise of laptop distribution

Students claim they were promised laptops by govt officials by then Balochistan CM

Students of Atta Shad Degree College Turbat complained about the non-serious behaviour of the government towards its promises to the students.

Last year on August 20, the college students went on a countrywide tour. While coming back, they visited the provincial capital Quetta, where they met with the then chief minister Balochistan, Jam Kamal Khan, and incumbent provincial Planning and Development Minister Zahoor Buledi.

The students claimed that they were promised by the government officials that they would be given laptops in the presence of the CM and provincial minister. They were eighty students on tour, the students said in the press conference, and no one had been given a laptop yet, which they stated showed the pathetic attitude of the government towards education.

The students added that they also went to the provincial secretariat, along with their tour in-charge Mansoor Ahmed, and met with Zahoor Buledi to inquire about the progress of their case. Despite his surety of giving them the laptops soon, the students said, it could not satisfy them. The students also alleged that the minister’s assistant misbehaved with them.

They said that they went again a few times to the office of Zahoor Buledi, where they were briefed on the progress of their case. They were told to visit the Finance Department where their case was pending, said the students.

“When we went there,” the students stated, “they repeated the same [information on] progress, adding that [they were told] their case took much time due to some mistakes in the details [of students].”

Later in their press conference, the students said they were sent here and there and office to office, but it could not help them get what they were promised. The students claimed they had learnt that their file was lost. The students haplessly requested the government officials, including the provincial minister Zahoor Buledi, to give them the laptops or denounce them publicly.

“It has been five months now, and they said they will give the laptops within a week,” they added.

In answer to a question regarding their future planning, the students said that the government had to realise it before coming into the press club for the press conference. They said they were given a disappointing surety, by the college administration too, regarding the government progress, which may compel them to protest on the roads.

The students ended their press conference by stating, “If we, the students, are forced to come on roads and press clubs, how can we study? We ask the government to reply to us: what should we do? Study or protest?”

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