State’s responsibility : Thatta villager goes to court for schools

Thatta DCO, Thatta education EDO and DAG issued notice.

KARACHI:

Noor Muhammad, a resident of the Ali Nawaz Jalalani village, Thatta, has gone to court, saying that the National Commission for Human Development had opened a school but declared it non-functional later on.

Scores of girls had enrolled and others were preparing to follow suit but the project has been wrapped up, he submitted.

There is another government-run co-educational school in the village but it does not have teachers and proper facilities, the petitioner added. Under Article 25 of the Constitution, it was the duty of the state to provide people education, he stated. He asked the court to tell the authorities and respondents to provide teachers, books, furniture and other essential items for the children of the village. He cited the commission’s chairperson, the Thatta DCO, Thatta education EDO and the Deputy Attorney-General as respondents who were put on notice on Tuesday by the Sindh High Court division bench.

The hearing was adjourned for a date to be fixed later by the court’s office.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 13^th,  2011.