HYDERABAD, Aug 15: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Thursday issued notices to the executive district officer, education, principal, Government Girls College, Qasimabad, and the AAG, Sindh, on a constitutional petition filed by a school student.

Advocate Amjad Sehto represented the petitioner.

The student said she had passed the matriculation examination and added that in order to get admission she went to the Government Girls College, Qasimabad, where she was told by the administration that admission fee was Rs1,810, including computer fee of Rs1,000.

She told the court that on inquiry she came to know that there was no computer laboratory or equipment in the college and no teacher was appointed for computer training but the college was demanding Rs1,000 as computer fee.

She said most of the students could not afford expenses of education as they belonged to poor families.

The student said the EDO, education, had made it mandatory that every student must pay the computer.

She said when subject like physics and chemistry were being taught without any additional fee why separate fee was being charged for computer despite the fact that there was no laboratory or trained teacher.

She prayed the court to issue directives to the principal of the college not to charge computer fee.

The court issued notices to the respondents for Aug 20.

STPP: The district body of the Sindh Tarraqi Passand Party (STPP), at its meeting held at the Tarraqi Passand House on Thursday, has resolved to launch a protest movement if the problems of the liberated Haris living in Quadir Nagar were not resolved, reports our bureau.

The meeting was presided over by Shaukat Memon.

It pointed out that Qadir Nagar was the first settlement where the Haris, who had been rescued from the private jails of the Waderas, had been rehabilitated by the STPP.

It regretted that the liberated Haris were living in huts and had not been provided water, gas, and electricity facilities and no school had been established in Qadir Nagar for their children.

It observed that the administration had made no efforts to resolve the problems of the poor Haris due to political reasons.

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