ISLAMABAD: After a series of meetings to restore educational standards of the Zam Governor Model School (ZGMS) of South Waziristan, the Senate’s Standing Committee on States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) on Tuesday directed the FATA additional chief secretary to resolve all the problems facing the school and submit a report within a month. The Senate Committee on SAFRON directed the FATA ACS that all the premises of ZGMS occupied by NGOs, GDP staff, Levies and Khasadar force of SWA should be vacated on immediate basis. Earlier, Senator Hilalur Rehman during a SAFRON committee meeting had expressed serious reservations over the deteriorating state of education of the ZGMS in Tank, an impoverished district and the gateway to the militancy-haunted South Waziristan tribal region. Students from the adjacent tribal areas study in the school, which serves as one of the best available education institutions of the area. Senator Saleh Shah from South Waziristan briefed the committee on the problems facing the school. He informed the committee that only 173 students were studying in the school, which catered to around 1,300 students only a few years back. “One of the sections of the school has been given to local administration for food distribution center among IDPs. The local levies force is living within the facility while the residential compound reserved for the principal is being used by an NGO,” Shah said.
Published in Daily Times, January 31st 2018.
