HYDERABAD: Fee hike by private schools criticised
HYDERABAD, Aug 24: Activists of the Human Rights Protection Association and a large number of students held a demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday to protest against the increase in tuition fee of private schools.
Speaking on the occasion, rights activist Khan Mohammad Qureshi said that because of the increase in tuition fee by private schools, children of the poor could not go to schools and were suffering from inferiority complex.
He said private schools established in every locality were charging exorbitant fees by deceiving the education department.
He said two to three times more fees were being charged by private schools than the official fees communicated to the EDO of education.
He demanded an inquiry into the affairs of private schools and said that where ten or more employees were appointed they should be provided social security cover.
Education should not be commercialised, Qureshi said and added that private schools should display the rate of admission fees and tuition fees on their walls outside the schools.
BLIND PEOPLE: Over two dozen blind people have staged a protest demonstration outside the press club against the non-implementation of employment quota for the disabled people.
Speaking on the occasion, the general secretary of the Hyderabad Welfare Association of the Blind, Ali Dino Pirzada said that in 1981 the then president of the country, General Ziaul Haq, had issued an ordinance under which one per cent employment quota was fixed for the disabled people of the country.
He said Ms Benazir Bhutto during her tenure in government had increased this quota to two per cent. However, he regretted that, the quota was not implemented.
He pointed out that only recently, test were held for the appointment of primary schoolteachers in which disabled people, including the blind, had also appeared and passed the test. However, they were not given employment, Pirzada said. Similarly, 10,000 appointments were made in police department but the disabled people were ignored, he said.
He demanded that those officers, who were not implementing the employment quota for the disabled people, should be taken to task.
He appealed to the prime minister and PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari to honour the promise made by Ms Benazir Bhutto of providing Roti, Kapra aur Makan to the people.