No high school graduates in Mandol district in 20 years

PAROON (Pajhwok): No one has graduated from high school in Mandol district of eastern Nuristan province during the last 20 years, an official said on Monday.

Nuristan education director Taj Mohammad Mutmain told Pajhwok Afghan News 161 permanent and 50 contractual teachers in Mandol district received their salaries regularly.

He said no one had graduated from 12th grade during the past 20 years in the district, where 25 primary, six middle and one high school exist.

District official Khalil said all employees of the Mandol district education department collectively received 1670000 afghanis salaries each month.

Haji Abdul Qadir, a tribal elder and resident of Anish village in Mandol district, told Pajhwok Afghan News there were no schools or madrassas in the district. “Schools only exist on paper and in practice the educational process in this district is zero.”

Najibullah, a 16-year-old resident of Chapadara village in the district, told Pajhwok Afghan News that teachers, headmasters and principals received their salaries, but the schools were not functioning.

He said he studied up to 10th grade in Laghman province but dropped out of school due to economic difficulties and was now studying religion in a mosque in the district’s Chattar village.

Another student, Faridullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News that he had studied up to 10th grade at Pashtunistan High School in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, due to the lack of a school in his area.

Hazrat Ali, a resident of Deh Sokhta village in the district, told Pajhwok Afghan News he was illiterate because there was no school in his village.

Maulvi Saifullah Deobandi, a resident of Doni village in the district, also told Pajhwok Afghan News that government officials of the past regime pocketed salaries in the name of education and all teachers in Mandol district were ghost.

He added his request to the government was to pay attention to the education sector in their district.

On the other hand, primary school teacher Mohammad Rahim told Pajhwok Afghan News that they were teaching the students, but said that August last year their salaries had not been paid on time and the education department was not taking care of them. He also said that their students do not have books.

Meanwhile, Sharaf Khan Rasooli, the district’s education director, said there was no teacher in Mandol who was a 12th grader, so the high school had no graduates.

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