PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday allowed writ petitions of private schools against the provincial government for non-payment of monthly fee of students under its Rokhana Pakhtunkhwa Programme and directed the government to pay the fee within four days.
A division bench comprising Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth and Justice Asadullah Khan Chamkani allowed the petitions of the private schools seeking monthly fee from the government for the admitted students under the Rokhana Pakhtunkhwa Programme.
Three private schools including Hira Schools, Noor Education System and Nida Model School of district Nowshera had filed the petitions. The schools lawyers Muzzamil Khan and Abid Ali submitted before the bench that the provincial government had enrolled about 1,000 students in the schools under the Rokhana Pakhtunkhwa Programme.
They said the government since January this year had not paid monthly fee of the students due to which not only the future of the students was at stake, but the schools were also faced financial constraints.
Under the programme, they submitted that education department was bound to pay the fee of the admitted students on quarterly basis in a year. It said that due to best performance of the students in the private schools, the government had extended the agreement with the schools for another three years.
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