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Govt: Girls College Booni, running without teaching staff

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: The newly established government girls degree college at Booni Chitral is being run without teaching staff and the severity of the problem can be gauged from the fact that for seven hundred students there are only three faculty members. Talking to chitraltimes.com here on Saturday, the parents of the students of the college apprehended the wastage of the precious time of their daughters due to the acute shortage of teaching staff. The building of the college and its hostel had been completed last year but teaching staff is yet to be provided while classes of first and third year both for humanities and science groups have started this year. The parents said that as there was no other girls college in the upper Chitral, more than seven hundred parents admitted their daughters in the college with great enthusiasm. They said that their hopes have now dashed to the ground because their daughters are returning home without being taught for want of teachers. They added that poverty is rampant in the area and very few people can afford to send their daughters to other areas and it is a pity that the students of upper Chitral were denied in the college of Chitral city on the ground that a college has been opened for them in Booni. expressing their deep anguish, they said that the first four months of the academic year have already gone without teachers while the college will be closed by next week for two months on account of winter vacations while examination of intermediate classes will start from 15th April next. The parents said that there is only one month left for covering the whole syllabus of first year which is not possible practically. They criticized the elected representatives of the area for their indifference towards the problem and alleged that they did not make any effort to fill the vacant posts of lecturers in the college.

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Winter vacations for the new year for Govt: and private Schools notified

Chitraltimes.com report

PESHAWAR: The revised schedule of winter vacations for the year 2009-10 for all government and private schools in NWFP has been notified.

According to a notification issued by Elementary & Secondary Education Department NWFP, winter vacations will commence from 25th December 2009 to 29th December, 2009 in plain areas and from 25th December 2009 to 31st January 2010 in the hilly and snowy areas in NWFP.