Islamabad : More than two-thirds of 152 boys' primary schools in 89 districts across Pakistan are without non-teaching staff like peons, sanitary workers and security guards, according to a monitoring report.
The report issued by the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) said 82 per cent of the monitored schools were operating without sanitary workers, 75 per cent did not have security guards while there were no peons in 70 per cent of them.
However, the report said the hygienic condition of classrooms in 73 per cent of the monitored schools was found to be satisfactory despite the unavailability of sanitary workers. This suggested that the responsibility of keeping the classrooms clean was taken up either by the teachers or the students themselves.
