Quetta: Deputy Commissioner Khuzdar, Sohail ur Rehman Baloch, has discovered 10 ghost schools in Tehsil Zehri of District Khuzdar in a raid conducted on Tuesday.
Chief Minister of Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri, is elected from Tehsil Zehri of District Khuzdar into provincial assembly of Balochistan.
The ghost schools discovered were being used as personal guest rooms, storage places for animals and animal fodder.
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15 teachers employed for those schools were also discovered who just received salaries and never showed up for their duties.
DC Khuzdar took over the control of all the ghost schools from the occupants and handed it over to the education department. Salaries of all 15 teachers were stopped and they were also suspended on the orders of DC Khuzdar.
Earlier, it was reported in Dawn last week that verification drive conducted through Education Management Information System (EMIS) in Balochistan has discovered 1,500 ghost schools.
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