The Private Schools Association has announced to disregard the Sindh governments ongoing lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.
According to details, the Private Schools Association has announced that they will open their offices from Wednesday (Today) onward. The association has argued that school management is struggling to pay salaries to the staff, also went on to claim that 16,000 school employees have not been paid their due salaries since the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown.
The association chairman during a press conference said that the employees have been paid their allocated salaries for the month of March but the schools did not have the resources available to continue payments for the month of April and onward. He also said that they were also defying government orders of taking student fee in installments, the fee will have to be submitted as in the past. The Sindh government on March 30 directed private schools across the province to pay full salaries to its teachers on time. In a notification issued, Director General Private Institution Dr Mansoob Siddiqui has directed schools to issue monthly fee challans instead of the usual bi-monthly or quarterly challans to the parents.
