Students still deprived of free text-books: Nasir

They said that it was the situation being faced by the students of Lahore and one could imagine very easily that what would be the situation in the other districts of the province. They were of the view that as the government has shortened the educational session of the students and shortage of the books would cause irreparable loss to the students.

They claimed that Punjab government has imposed emergency in education department and has set a target to send every child to school and shortage of books was also affecting government’s plan.

Hafiz said that in case of failing to achieve the fixed targets, the bureaucrats would hold teachers responsible for failure but it was very old and unfair tradition and now it should be ended they demanded.

Both the leaders demanded the Chief Minister Punjab to hold an inquiry into the matter and responsible should be held in accordance with law.