KOHAT/KARAK: The Private Educational Association Kohat (Peak) has rejected the private schools regulatory authority law, saying it was promulgated without taking them into confidence.

Peak president Rab Nawaz, who is the head of the Kohat administrative zone of private schools, including Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, Hangu and Karak, announced to resign as member of the Provincial Private Schools Authority (PPSA) in protest against passage of the law.

A statement on Saturday said that thousands of schools had been placed under his control as member of PPSA and their supervision was humanly impossible.

There were 480 schools in Kohat only and if the other districts are included the number would go into thousands.

He said that the other three zones of KP had also rejected the law.

Reject regulatory authority law

“The government wants that we should decrease monthly fee by up to 20 per cent and share details of income and expenses with it,” Mr Nawaz said.

He said that the government wanted to check their accounts, but did not share with them a penny from the billions of rupees of the education budget and funds coming from abroad for the promotion of education.

In Karak, the Private Educational Institutions Management Association announced to boycott the election under the regulatory authority and demanded that due share should be given to the private educational institutions in foreign grant to promote the cause of education in the country.

In this regard, district president of the association Abdul Jalil Khattak and general secretary Mohammad Nabi addressed a meeting of the association here on Saturday where they claimed that election of the private educational institutions under the proposed regulatory authority was tantamount to suicide for the private educational institutions.

They demanded amendments to some sections of the law and added that educational institutions with low enrolment should be exempted from the 20 per cent concession in fee.

They demanded that the representation of the private educational institutions in the authority should be eight per cent instead of four per cent.

They went on to say that the chairman and managing director of the authority should be taken from the private educational institutions through election.

Published in Dawn, September 17th, 2017