50 Sindh schools issued show-cause notices on fee reduction
KARACHI:15 March: Sindh Education Department on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to 55 schools for demanding regular fee after the government had ordered a 20% reduction, the department's spokesperson said.
" The schools did not pay their employees and did not reduce their fee by 20%," the spokesperson said, adding that the department had sent show-cause notices to 30 private schools two days ago for violating government's orders.
"So far, we have sent notices to 85 schools," the official noted.
The spokesperson warned private schools to pay their staff within a week or else strict action would be taken against them.
The government reiterated that private schools were directed to slash their fee by 20% in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
On April 6, at the instructions of Education Minister Saeed Ghani, the Directorate of Inspections & Registration of Private Institutions, Sindh (DIRPIS) had issued a notification, making it mandatory for all private schools and intermediate colleges to reduce tuition fees by 20% for the months of April and May.
Likewise, private schools were also ordered to pay the salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff in full and to not terminate their services during the current lockdown. These decisions were taken to provide relief to parents as well as employees in the private education sector.
Until April 11, however, the directorate received some 834 complaints from various areas of the province. The figures issued on Monday showed that 631 complaints were registered in Karachi Division, 59 in Hyderabad, 47 in Sukkur, 33 in Shaheed Benazirabad, 29 in Mirpurkhas and 35 in Larkana.
These complaints were filed by parents, teachers and non-teaching staff members, all of whom informed the directorate that the private school owners were not willing to comply with the provincial government’s orders.The news.
