Extended vacations: Schools fined for violating government orders

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Several schools that opened in the district on Monday in violation of the government’s orders to remain shut till next week were fined Rs50,000 by the district education department.

District Education Officer Muhammad Inam Turo along with Deputy Education Officer Sajjad Akhtar raided several schools in Akora Khattak, including Sir Syed Public School, Student Model School, Sufa High School as well as Iqra School in Jehangira.

Upon finding these institutes open in violation of the government’s orders, the education officials fined them Rs50,000 each and sent a letter to the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Mardan to cancel their registration.

The officials warned that similar raids will continue across the district. If discovered open, the schools’ registration would be cancelled and they would be fined heavily.

The savage militant attack on Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16 left 150 people dead.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 6^th, 2015.