LAKKI MARWAT: Elders of Mela Mandrakhel have expressed their deep concern over the lack of higher secondary level education facilities and urged the provincial government to set up a higher secondary school for girls in the area.
Talking to journalists here on Saturday, they said that the rural locality lacked proper educational facilities for girls, forcing them to travel to Lakki city on a daily basis to get higher secondary education.
They said that many girl students from the rural areas had got admission into the public sector schools located in the urban localities to continue their education.
“To send their girls to schools in other areas is an additional economic for inflation-hit parents,” an elder maintained, adding that the safe travel of female students to school and back to their homes in their village is also a matter of great concern for their parents.
Elders show concerns over lack of educational facilities in Lakki
Elders said that many parents could not afford to send their daughters to the educational institutions located in Lakki city for various reasons.
“Instead of spending on the education of girls in other areas, they prefer to keep them engaged in domestic work at their homes,” they added.
They said that setting up a girl’s higher secondary school was the need of the hour as it would provide the female students with an opportunity to continue their higher secondary education close to their homes.
Published in Dawn, May 10th, 2026.
