[DAWN] After ghost schools and ghost teachers, the government of Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
has now traced presence of 234,000 ghost students in the province which is already lagging behind other provinces in terms of literacy rate.
The ghost students were 'enrolled' by officers of education department and teachers to show maximum number of schools and get other monetary benefits, the provincial education secretary, Saboor Kakar, revealed on Monday.
He was addressing a gathering organised in connection with monitoring of teachers through modern technology at their schools.
Balochistan Chief Minister Dr. Malik Baloch, who inaugurated the "Real Time School Monitoring System", lashed out at officers and teachers for declining condition of education sector in the country's resource-rich province.