KP govt makes a bizarre move to protect schools

PESHAWAR: In a bizarre move, the elementary and secondary education department has directed all schools that if the concerned watchman is unfit to handle a weapon then he should bring any of his relatives trained for that purpose.

 

All the district education officers have been communicated the decision taken at a meeting recently held in the secretariat of the department to review security situation.

A circular, issued to the director of elementary and secondary education and all DEOs of the province for immediate implementation, says that the matter of the school Chowkidar (watchman) should be discussed with the parent-teacher councils (PTCs).

The circular available with this scribe says that if the PTC agrees, the watchman will be provided with a shotgun and the DEO concerned should immediately take up the case with the local authorities for issuing a licence in this regard.

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Education dept directs untrained watchmen to engage relatives knowing use of arms

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“If for some reason the Chowkidar is unfit to handle a shotgun, he will arrange for a relative to perform this duty alongside the Chowkidar,” says the circular.

It says that grills should be installed immediately at the school rooms, which have windows facing other property that is open and vulnerable like roads etc. Besides grills, the windows should be covered with steel mesh, it adds.

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