Peshawar High Court. PHOTO: PHC WEBSITE
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday ordered chairpersons of all the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) across the province to suspend licences of educational institutes not following the sibling fee policy.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Afsar Ali Shah said education till secondary level should be free, but the private sector has made educating children a “profit -oriented business.”
“The resources of the state are being squeezed and used by the elite class to exploit the middle class,” said CJ Khan sternly.
Advocate Shakeela Khan, representing the Peshawar Education Board, said they have warned private institutions to follow court orders, but instead of providing concessions to siblings, they have increased the fee.
CJ Khan said private educational institutes have formed a mafia which caused hindrance in approving the bill to form a regulatory authority for such institutions.
The court asked provincial and federal governments to make a report on the issue and ordered cancelation of any increase in fee.
October 2, 2012, the PHC ordered the provincial government to ensure that sibling policy was being implemented in all private institutions, warning them action would be taken against any school found not complying with court orders.
As per the sibling policy, every school must grant 50% fee concession to a student’s siblings studying in the same school.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2013.
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