Schools without headmasters

Umerkot: More than 20 high schools in the district are without headmasters while 16 headmasters and other educational staff have been waiting for promotion for two years.

Leaders of the Government Secondary Teachers Association said on Sunday that although schedule of new expenditure and buildings for high schools had been approved students were still without facilities.

More than 20 posts of junior school teachers were vacant in one high school while enrolment of students had increased to 3,200.

There is no toilet and no arrangement for drinking water.

They called upon the education minister to remove non-cadre staff and promote senior teachers and subject specialists. Dawn