KHYBER
Learning and teachings activities have come to halt for the last three weeks in the lonely Government Girls’ College, Landi Kotal as the female teaching staff cannot come to the institution due to road blockade at Bogyari checkpoint by Koki Khel protestors, students and teachers said.
The only Government Girls College has 45 enrolled students, with 15 teaching staff members(non-local), commenced temporarily in the hostel building of Government Boys Degree College, Landi Kotal last year.
The local female students regretted that the prolonged agitation of Koki Khel Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) had a devastating impact on the girls’ studies and asked for alternative arrangements to save their valuable time.
When Principal of the college Nadia Irshad was contacted on the matter she said that infect hundred percent female staff was from Peshawar therefore teaching activities were completely suspended in the institution that suffered the local girls’ students.
She maintained that online classes had been begun to save precious time of the female learners but urged the concerned authorities to play their due role to resume Pak-Afghan highway to formally recommence teaching activities in the college.
The parents of the girls’ students expressed their deep concern over the prolonged blockade and said it was a deliberate attempt to keep their daughters and sisters uneducated.
They maintained that the suspension of road not only had a negative impact on academic performance of the students but would also increase the risk of dropout rates in female students in Landi Kotal.
They demanded of the district administration and education department to adopt necessary actions to ensure girls’ education uninterrupted.
