The Baloch Students Organisation's Wadh zone has appealed to the Balochistan education department and the district administration to step in urgently at Government Boys Inter College Wadh, saying years of official neglect have brought one of the area's oldest higher-secondary institutions close to collapse.

Set near Wadh Bazaar in Khuzdar district, the college has for decades been the only sizeable institution offering higher-secondary education to students from the surrounding villages. Around 250 students are on its rolls today. It once ran pre-medical and pre-engineering groups and, this year, opened a computer science (ICS) stream ; a development the organisation welcomed, though it cautioned that fresh departments count for little without teachers to run them, working facilities and lessons that actually take place.

By the organisation's account, the college has been sliding for some time. Lecturers are in short supply across subjects; there is no proper library; and the science laboratory, it said, lacks even the equipment its students are meant to train on. Games have all but disappeared from the timetable, and the study tours and educational trips that once broke up the academic year stopped long ago.

The sharpest complaint is about who actually shows up. Students cited in the statement said the lab assistant, the clerk and the watchman were about the only staff to be found at their posts on a regular basis, while much of the teaching faculty stayed away as a matter of routine. The organisation framed this as both an indictment of the education department and a breach of the students' basic right to an education.

Nor is the neglect confined to the classroom. A hostel meant to house boys from far-flung villages has sat unfinished for five years, the statement said, leaving those who travel long distances with nowhere to stay. The college's single bus, meanwhile, has been off the road for so long that it is now good for nothing pushing students onto costly daily commutes that, the organisation said, were eating into their attendance.

The Wadh zone demanded that the vacant teaching posts be filled without delay, the hostel finished, the library and laboratory brought back into use, and the students given the ordinary facilities any functioning college is expected to provide. All of it, it said, needed to be treated as an emergency.

Should the authorities fail to act, the organisation added, it reserved the right to press the students' case through every constitutional, democratic and peaceful avenue open to it and the responsibility for whatever followed would lie with the authorities alone.

Published in Balochistan Dispatch, July 26th, 2026