Re-registration of private schools, buses purchase ordered

LAHORE : The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered the School Education Department (SED) Punjab to re-register private schools and purchase buses for the private schools.

Reportedly, Justice Shahid Karim of Lahore High Court has issued a written order on the petitions for smog remedy. The court directed the Schools Dept to re-register private schools and purchase buses for children and ordered that private schools should ensure that 50 percent of their students use these buses. As per the judgment, the School Education Dept was asked to buy buses for private schools two years ago but the department did not implement this order. The Lahore High Court has given instructions to the Motorway, Forest Department, PHA and National Highway and Housing Societies, preventing the planting of palm trees on the Islamabad-Lahore Motorway. In the written decision of the LHC, it was said that according to the judicial member, the campaign to plant saplings at the roofs has started as gardens are being made on the roofs of the colleges.