Government Primary School Ghoi Sehr Bhagla Murree Upgraded To Elementary School

Government Primary School Ghoi Sehr Bhagla Murree upgraded to elementary school

MURREE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Mar, 2017 ) : The education department has issued notification for up gradation of Girls Primary School Ghoi SehrBhagla Murree. The school was started as primary school and later upgraded to middle level.

According to details the school was established in 1925, with two rooms to promote educational activities in the hilly area, however despite passing decades the school was still working at primary level.

In 2000, few more rooms were constructed alongside old school building including washrooms. According to the locals, there were some 200 hundred minors enrolled in school. According to locals Government, Riaz Model high school was located far away from this area and they were unable to send their toddlers in harsh weather.

Talking to APP here Friday Rafeq Mahmood Abbasi a notable of the area appreciated the department's step for upgradation of the school. "We had approached Provincial Minister, Raja Ashfaq Sarwar on this issue, who directed the department to issue up gradation notification of the school".

The residents were hopeful that up gradation of the school would promote educational activities as well as increase girl's literacy rate. "We are happy that we will have to go nowhere else as our own school has been upgraded to primary school," said Aroosh Idrees, a student, she wants to become a doctor.

"We are from poor families and it was difficult for us to send our daughters to remote areas to get further education. "Upgradation of the school has resolved our problems," said Zafar Javed a local social worker.

Our leader had assured us that the school would be upgraded up to 10th grade, if enrolment ratio was satisfactory, he added. An official of the education department, who is responsible to look after hilly area educational matters, said currently there were four teachers performing duties in the school, which was insufficient for student's strength.

The recruitment process in education department was underway and the department would appoint three more teachers in the school for providing more educational facilities, he informed.