(MENAFN - Tribal News Network) PESHAWAR, 15 January: Students of a government primary school in the suburbs of the provincial metropolis are forced to take classes in an open graveyard as the building of their school has been locked by the landlord in utter frustration.

Local residents informed that the Bela Neko Khan Government Primary School on Dilzak road was locked by the person on whose land it was built due to which the students had been taking classes under the open sky for the last one week.

The villager, who had locked the school building, when contacted, told TNN that he had provided the land for the school on the precondition that in return, he should be hired against a class-IV post.

'The local MPA denied me the job and instead appointed one of his voters. I would not open the school until the provincial government doesn't give me job,' he said.

The district administration has also moved a letter to the district education officer and urged him to resolve the matter at the earliest as schooling of the students was being compromised.

Local people have also requested the government to address the issue and reopen the school building.

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