KARACHI, May 30: The Human Rights cell of the Pakistan People’s Party on Thursday expressing deep concern over the rapid disappearance of government educational institutions and the charging of exorbitant fees by the private schools appealed to the judiciary and human rights organizations to take suo motu notice of the situation.

Chief of the Human Rights cell of the PPP, Fauzia Wahab said her party was not opposed to private educational institutions but not at the cost of government institutions.

If the government pulled out of this sector on the national level, then the poor children of the country would be the worst sufferers and the rate of literacy in the country would be further curtailed.

Recalling her party’s initiatives during its tenure in the government, Fauzia Wahab said that the closure of more and more government educational institutions during the last five years had deprived thousands of children their right to education. Those who could afford it sent their children to private schools, which were minting money.

She claimed that the cost of education had increased by more than 200 per cent during this period, while the actual earnings of the parents had slumped drastically owing to inflation and hike in the cost of utilities.

She was critical of the government’s lack of adequate allocation for the educational sector owing to which over 125,000 institutions in Sindh and Punjab were in dire straits.