PESHAWAR: The elementary and secondary education department of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has asked the internally displaced persons, taking shelter in the buildings of the government schools, to vacate the schools till August 10 as academic activities would resume from September 1, according to official sources here.
The students would start coming to their schools from September 1 at the end of three-month summer vacations, said an official in the district education office Bannu. However, he said that the deadline set for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) to vacate the schools was August 20.
The IDPs claimed that they were asked to vacate the school buildings till August 10. Besides other incentives, the federal government would provide the IDPs with Rs12,000 per month for food and rent charges.
The news about vacation of schools has worried the IDPs as they are not sure to get proper shelter after leaving the school buildings because the host cities including Bannu, Lakki Marwat and Karak have not enough houses for rent to accommodate them, according to officials and IDPs.
Mohammad Khalil, a displaced tribesman, said yesterday that IDPs were panicked when they were told to leave the school buildings.
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