Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Peshawar, on Friday revoked registration of two elite schools for not implementing decision of giving half fee concession to siblings.
The decision has been taken by the board of directors established under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Registration and Functioning of Private Educational Institution Ordinance 2001, said a notification issued by the BISE here on Friday.
Peshawar BISE chairman Dr Mohammad Shafi Afridi told Dawn that registration of various branches of Beaconhouse School System in University Town, Hayatabad, Peshawar Cantonment and Jamrud Road, and The City School’s senior branch in University Town was suspended for not giving half fee concession to siblings studying in same private educational institutions.
He said that the decision has been taken unanimously by all 22 members of the board of the regulatory authority.
Under the Education Code 1935, it is binding on private educational institutions to charge half fee from brothers and sisters.
In this connection a notification was issued in July 2007 which states: “When two or more real brothers and sisters attend the same school or different schools in the province only the brother or sister in the higher class of a school should be required to pay the full rate of fee. The fee payable by other brothers and sisters should not exceed half of the ordinary rates.”
The private schools then challenged this notification in the court, which rejected their plea. The judgment was delivered by a two-member bench of the high court on Feb 1, 2011. The bench had dismissed some writ petitions filed by leading private schools and declared as legal the notifications which made it binding on them to extend fee concession to siblings studying in same school.
The BISE chairman, who is also head of the regulatory authority, said that he had issued several notices to these schools, but they didn’t implement the decision of half fee in their educational institutions.
He said that parents should give him an application against those educational institutions which charge full fee from more than one sibling. He said that the board would take action against schools violating the court orders.
