KARACHI, Aug 24: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) has expressed concern over the education department’s indifference towards the cases pertaining to educational institutions pending in courts.
“Owing to its lack of interest, the department has recently lost the case of Delhi School where 5,000 boys and girls are enrolled but deprived of education,” SPLA leaders Prof Riaz Ahsan, Prof Liaquat Aziz, Manzoor Hussain Chishti, Agha Khalid, Ayub Mari and Athar Mirza said in a statement issued here on Friday. The owner of the school building, they said, had locked the premises after winning the case.
In the past also, the department had lost several buildings to their owners, the SPLA leaders said, and argued that the education department could spend Rs6 million for hiring advocates to defend its ban on the teachers’ unions, but was not ready to spend a small sum to save these educational institutions.—PPI
