RAWALPINDI: Two cantonment boards in Rawalpindi have directed around 350 private schools operating in residential areas to vacate their premises and shift their establishments into the commercial areas in compliance with the law. On the other hand, private schools say they want alternative land to be allotted in the commercial areas before they shift. Meanwhile, the All Pakistan Private Schools and Colleges Association General Secretary Irfan Muzaffar Kiyani acknowledged that the top court had indeed ordered to shift private schools from residential areas in a suo moto case. There are a large number of private schools in every residential area of the two cantonments of Rawalpindi, including 200 private schools in the residential areas of RCB and 150 private schools in CCB. Curiously, until the top court’s orders, the cantonment boards appeared reluctant to take any action against these schools, as evidenced by the number of schools which had opened in the residential areas.

Source: Pakistan Today January 23, 2019 15:22 UTC