Owners protest prolonged closure of private schools.

BAJAUR -- The owners of private schools on Wednesday asked the government to either allow them to reopen the educational institutions or extend financial assistance to them

They made the demand during a protest demonstration outside the Bajaur Press Club.

The Private Education Network (PEN) had organised the protest.

The protesters, holding placards inscribed with different slogans, also shouted against the government for keeping the private schools closed.

PEN Bajaur district president Noor Rahman and others said all the private educational institutions had been closed since March 18 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The speakers said the prolonged closure had put the owners in deep financial crisis, and rendered teachers jobless.

They said there were about 150 private educational institutions in the district, providing livelihood to more than 3,000 people (teachers and other staff).

They said the teachers could not be provided salaries as the parents of students had refused to pay fees.

They claimed that they were the worst-affected by Covid-19 pandemic, but both the government and the district administration had kept silence over their problems.

They urged the provincial government, especially the chief minister and the education minister, to have mercy on them and allow reopening of the schools without delay.

The schools' owners promised to strictly follow the SOPs if the government allowed them to reopen the schools.

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