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‘Private campuses flouting govt’s order in Faisalabad’
From Our Correspondent
FAISALABAD: The Punjab government’s order to provide foolproof security to the public and private schools and colleges is being flouted in Faisalabad.
Talking to newsmen here on Thursday, the students’ parents said that the government had last month closed all the public and private schools due to looming terrorists’ threats across the province. In Faisalabad, the Education EDO was directed to bound the educational institutions to raise their boundary walls up to 10 feet, put barbered wire on the walls, install walkthrough gates and arrange security guards equipped with arms to help avert any terrorist attempt but more than 50 per cent schools and colleges, especially those running in private sector, had still not implemented the order, they added. They said that the public sector schools and colleges had almost completed their security arrangements as directed by the government but the private educational institutions did not implement the order and refrained to make foolproof security arrangements. They demanded that a departmental action should be evoked against the Education EDO for his alleged failure to get the order implemented. They also demanded Commissioner Nasim Nawaz and DCO Noorul Amin Mengal take action against those schools, who had failed to make security arrangements. Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami Faisalabad ameer Sardar Zafar Hussain Khan and PTI district vice-president Rana Sikandar Azam Khan demanded strict action against the private schools for not arranging foolproof security measures. They appealed to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to order an inquiry against such schools.