KARACHI - Residents of Mubarak Village are looking towards the government for completion of repair work of a secondary school which was initiated two years ago but was stopped without any reason. The project was announced by Karachi Nazim Mustafa Kamal during a visit to the village. He also issued necessary directives to the departments concerned for repair/reconstruction of the secondary school for boys. However, all of a sudden the projects contractor left the work half done causing disappointment among the villagers, students and their parents in particular. The girls primary school building is also in dilapidated condition which was built several years ago but at present it direly needs repair. About 30 kilometres from the Citys centre, the centuries-old Mubarak Village is located in Keamari Town. It is a small but scenic fishermens hamlet, with a population of 10,000 Baloch people. Fishing is their basic source of income, they say. Abject poverty has never allowed most villagers to study. Lack of basic facilities including jetty, health, electricity and education are the primary problems and the authorities are indifferent to their plight, they complained. We had several times informed the government about our problems but it has never paid heed to our complaints, says Khair Bibi, a fisherwoman who lost her ailing daughter, Razia, on their way to City hospital. She said a dispensary, established in 1996, was still without proper medical facilities. No medical officer had ever been appointed in the village. The villagers said that the school project, announced two years ago, filled them with hope but the project was left in midway.