KARACHI, July 29: Differing to KBCA’s demolition action, leaders of private schools management have urged the former to move against government’s organizations which were responsible for encouraging schools in residential buildings.
If it was serious and honest in its building regularization drive, the Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) should stand against the society registrar, EDO education and educational board, which have been okaying establishment of schools in residential buildings and issuing necessary permission, chairman of All Private Schools Management Association Sindh, Syed Khalid Shah, said at a press conference on Friday.
Speaking to newsmen, along with other office-bearers of the association, Mr Shah claimed that the KBCA’s hunt against schools was nothing but a clear message that the government was not ready to encourage furtherance of private sector educational projects.
He said that the latest demolition of some portions of a private school by the Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) staff was uncalled for and was surely to cast negative impact on the private sector schools.
The building of a school in Gulshan-i-Iqbal has been subjected to action on a 24-hour notice and as such there left a little hope that the school would resume with its usual activities in a peaceful manner on August 1, when the new academic session will commence, he added.
Mr Shah said that regularization was an issue pertaining to landlords and the KBCA and demolition of school or vacation of premises under the garb of regularization would certainly cause closure of many of the schools established on residential plots.
He urged the president, prime minister, governor and the chief minister to look into the problem of private schools and restrain the Karachi Building Control Authority from taking actions, which were likely to bring in major gains for landlords only, otherwise schools would be compelled to take some extreme action in the larger interest of education and students of the city.
