ISLAMABAD, Aug 13: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has declared 22 private schools illegal for operating in residential areas of the capital and ordered their early removal, a source in the CDA told Dawn.

The source said the authority had started cancelling the allotment of the plots on which these schools had been set up.

The source said the CDA had imposed a ban in 1999 on setting up of schools in residential areas. According to the CDA rules, schools established in the areas before 1999 are considered legal and authorized. The source said the 22 institutions were established in 2003.

The authority has urged parents and guardians of students of these schools to stop sending their children to the institutions and the teachers to avoid teaching in them since these stood closed and ceased to function.

The owners of the schools have been directed not to open the institutions after summer vacations, otherwise punitive action would be taken against them.

The schools which have been declared illegal are: Beacon House School, house No 238, Double Road, sector F-11/4; Beacon House School, house No 257, Double Road, sector F-11/4; Seeds High School, street 26, F-6/2; Little Scholars Paradise School, Model Village, Rawal Town; Kind Care Junior School, street 38, F-10/1;

Saudi Arabian School in street 40, sector F-10/4; a school established in house No 1905 in I-10/2; Modern Language School, house No 1813, I-10/2; The City Nursery School, 25-Nazimudin Road, F-10/4; National English School, street 88, I-10/1; Faisal Junior Model School, house No 357, Rawal Town; Bright Model School, house No 1813, I-10/2; Tanveer Science Academy School, house No 322-L, Rawal Town; Preparatory School, house No 18, Class-III Shopping Centre, sector G-5; Fauji Foundation Model School, house No 12, Nazimuddin Road, F-10/4; Bright House English Medium, house No 40, street 155, G-11/1; Police Foundation Model School, house No 64, G-11/2; Peace Worldwide School, house No 291, G-11/2; School Pak Turk, house No 525, G-9/3; and Step Ahead School, house No 443, sector I-10/4.