Summer vacation fee may be banned in capital too

Islamabad: As the Lahore High Court restrains Punjab private schools from collecting the summer vacation fee, the Capital Administration and Development Division too is expected to ask privately-owned educational institutions in Islamabad to follow suit.
The court issued the restraining order lately after a lawyer formally complained to it that private schools in the province forced parents to pay fee during the three-month summer vacation though the government had already stopped them from doing so.
CADD oversees the capital city’s private schools, which totals over 1,000, through a watchdog, PEIRA.
According to a CADD official, there is a realisation among the division’s top bosses that the collection of fee from schoolchildren during the summer vacation is unfair and now after the court has backed up such notion, there’s a likelihood that the federal capital’s private schools too will be stopped from collecting the summer vacation fee.
However, CADD Secretary Khalid Hanif gave a cautious reply when this scribe asked him if the division would implement the Lahore High Court order in Islamabad.
“I haven’t seen the Lahore High Court orders yet. After examining them, we’ll see if they could be implemented in the federal capital,” he said.