Removal of barriers worries private schools

Karachi
The Private Schools Management Association (PSMA) has expressed concern over removal of protective barriers by Sindh Rangers.
Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday, the PSMA chairman Sharf-uz-Zaman said that annual board exams of ninth and tenth grades will begin in the first week of April. He said around four million students will be coming to examination centres to appear in papers.
Following the attack the Sindh government’s apex committee had, after consulting with all relevant authorities including the Sindh Governor, education secretary and transport department, had ordered schools to take their own security measures.
Zaman said almost all of the schools had subsequently installed closed-circuit cameras and barriers at their personal expense but now on the orders of DG Rangers they were being removed. He appealed to the Sindh government to look into the security issues facing the schools while also making sure that examination centres were exempted from load shedding.