Caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Justice (retd) MaqboolBaqar has placed the services of four officers, including the Director General of Colleges, Principal and Vice Principal of Girls Degree College Al-Noor, District Central under suspension for their negligence, lack of interest, and failure to promote educational activities. He took this decision just after visiting Government Girls Degree College Al-Noor, District Central where Education Minister RanaHussain and Secretary Colleges SadafAnees on Sept 26.
The CM paid a surprise visit to the girls college in District Central and found neither the classes were running properly nor the condition of the classes, furniture, lab, and washrooms was satisfactory. The newly constructed auditorium and function Hall had become so dirty and dilapidated due to negligence that the fall ceiling was caving in and the color of the walls was peeling due to layers of dust. The CM visited Labs but not a single lab was functional, and the equipment placed there was in broken and precarious condition.
The washrooms had no door and were in filthy condition. The CM asked the DG College ShadabHussain if he had ever visited the girls college located in the Central district over an acre of land. The DG replied negatively which enraged the CM and asked how the students would prefer to get admission tin the college where the washrooms have neither doors nor running water. When the CM inquired about the number of students enrolled in the college Principal Zahida Begum replied 300 and when he checked the registered the number of enrolled girls students was 390.
The principal had no knowledge of the sanctioned strength of the teaching staff the Vice Principal was called but she was also blank about the number of staff. Most of the staff members were not present on duty. The CM was told that a Teacher of Islamic Studies IshratulAin did not perform duty for the last year. When she was asked to take the classes and attend the duty she called out her brothers who had misbehaved with the Principal.
The CM went from class to class and found that out of 390 students only 40 or 50 were present there. Only a teacher of English was seen teaching in the class and the CM appreciated her and lauded her method of teaching and spirit, otherwise all the classes were empty and were given such a look as if they had never been used. The CM learned that it was a degree college, but education was imparted up to the Intermediate level. The CM expressed displeasure and asked how the college has been made Degree College when it has no courses for B. A and B.SC to offer.
The CM witnessing such a state of negligence, inefficiency, and irrelevance of the Director General ShadabHussain, BS-20, the Principal of the College MsZahida Begum of BS-20, and the Vice Principal of BS-19 ordered the suspension of their services. He also ordered the suspension of the services of Islamic Studies lecturer IshratulAin for not performing her duty.
