Raza Ullah
Lakki Marwat is one of the Southern Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Total population of the district was 815,000 in 2014. It is a backward and neglected area from 1947 till the day, people of this area have voted for two major political parties (PPP and PML, N). But from last few years the citizens of this area have been deprived of their basic rights such as right to education, right to health and right to water and so on.
Education is the basic right of every citizen. According to the Article 25-A of the Constitution of Pakistan, the state is to provide free and compulsory education to all children aged five to sixteen years. But unfortunately, the case is different in the district. Most schools of the District are moth eaten. There are no proper and sufficient rooms for the students. Many teachers are hardly matriculate and are not able to teach properly. The incompetent teachers treat their student like laborers. They use their students in construction of buildings and other domestic activities. In many Schools the teachers have taken rented teachers due to their engagement in other domestic activities. All these malpractices are going well under the clear ignorance of KP provincial government. So it’s upon the KP government to take action against it instead of making tall claims of change.
There is no opposing the fact that the prosperity and development of a state mainly depends upon the health of citizens. If the citizens are physically fit then the state can go in every fields of life. But the condition of health care in the District is very bed. In some areas there are no hospitals for the residents. Most People take their patients to big cities like Islamabad and Peshawar. In the government hospital doctors are absent all over the day and there is no one to ask about it. There is also insufficiency of medicines and especially modern instruments of different surgeries. In my opinion the KP provincial government has miserably failed in health sector change. Slogans of the change can do nothing without taking any physical action for change. So it’s the primary duty of the government to take bold action for betterment of dilapidate health sector and meet the basic right of the district residents.
Similarly the roads condition of the district is also very bed from few decades. Especially the roads of back of beyond villages. Even no government could build any single road and people face a lot of difficulties each and every day. Before elections, PTI MNA Amir Ullah vowed to people that he will work especially on roads, hospitals, schools, and tube wells of Lakki Marwat. But from last three years even he could not built a single road or tube well.
The most important thing is that many villages are still deprived of water. They are still drinking rain water which is very harmful for health and create many diseases. Government must provide potable water to the populace.
Government and respective authorities must take some steps on an emergency footing, especially in the field of education, roads and health facilities.
Writer is the law student at Islamia College university Peshawar he can be reached at [email protected]
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