Police recover textbooks from godown in Landhi
Printed by the Sindh Textbook Board, books were supposed to be distributed among students
2.9m in Punjab, 1.8m in Sindh, 0.54m in Balochistan and 0.4m out of school in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
KARACHI:
Police claimed to have recovered thousands of new books from a scrap godown in the Landhi area.
Police officials said that the books were printed by the Sindh Textbook Board and the Sindh government for distribution among needy students.
The police also arrested a suspect after a case was registered on complaint of a female officer of the education department.
Police officials said that they conducted a raid on a tip-off at a scrap godown in Landhi No 5 and recovered unused books worth millions of rupees. The police arrested a suspect, Rizwan, who was the scrap dealer, said Landhi SHO Sarwar Commando.
The Landhi SHO contacted the education department after recovering the books. After being approached, the city district education department officers shared that the books were given to a school in Landhi and they formed an investigative committee after the recovery. Later, a case was registered in the presence of the monitoring committee's focal person.
'Stop tinkering with education in Sindh'
According to DSP Lal Buksh Solangi, the recovered books weighed around 2,500 kilogrammes and were 2017 editions. "The recovered books were provided by the Sindh government free of charge to public school students who were unable to buy new books themselves," the officer explained. "But the school administration sold these books to a scrapper instead of distributing them to the poor and needy students."
English, Urdu, Mathematics and Sindhi books were among the recovered books. The police registered an FIR on behalf of education department officer Mazeen Imran.
The Landhi SHO said several other apprehensions are expected in the case.
He shared that Rizwan gave a statement that he had been running this scrap book business for long. Obtaining the books at Rs12 to Rs13 per kg, Rizwan would sell the books to various factories that would recycle them into cardboard.
Police claimed to have recovered thousands of new books from a scrap godown in the Landhi area.
Police officials said that the books were printed by the Sindh Textbook Board and the Sindh government for distribution among needy students.
The police also arrested a suspect after a case was registered on complaint of a female officer of the education department.
Police officials said that they conducted a raid on a tip-off at a scrap godown in Landhi No 5 and recovered unused books worth millions of rupees. The police arrested a suspect, Rizwan, who was the scrap dealer, said Landhi SHO Sarwar Commando.
The Landhi SHO contacted the education department after recovering the books. After being approached, the city district education department officers shared that the books were given to a school in Landhi and they formed an investigative committee after the recovery. Later, a case was registered in the presence of the monitoring committee's focal person.
'Stop tinkering with education in Sindh'
According to DSP Lal Buksh Solangi, the recovered books weighed around 2,500 kilogrammes and were 2017 editions. "The recovered books were provided by the Sindh government free of charge to public school students who were unable to buy new books themselves," the officer explained. "But the school administration sold these books to a scrapper instead of distributing them to the poor and needy students."
English, Urdu, Mathematics and Sindhi books were among the recovered books. The police registered an FIR on behalf of education department officer Mazeen Imran.
The Landhi SHO said several other apprehensions are expected in the case.
He shared that Rizwan gave a statement that he had been running this scrap book business for long. Obtaining the books at Rs12 to Rs13 per kg, Rizwan would sell the books to various factories that would recycle them into cardboard.