The Ministry of Education will soon regularise the educational institutions in the federal capital, it was reliably learnt on Saturday.
Sources stated that the Ministry has finalised a draft law, which was sent to the federal cabinet for formal approval for setting up regulatory authority to give legal cover to around 400 private schools in Islamabad.
Earlier, the Ministry directed the administration of Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) to check the mushroom growth of private educational institutions without qualified teaching staff and other allied facilities. However, the FDE is reluctant to do so and sought help from the Islamabad Capital Administration in this regard.
These schools are continuously violating the CDA building by-laws.
On the other side, the Private Schools Management Committee has criticised the CDA for issuing vacation notices to 200 schools, demanding of the civic body to provide alternate places to run their business.
The management said that after passage of more than 25 years, government has not been able to devise a comprehensive policy to regularise these institutions.
Federal government should immediately look into the matter and promulgate an Ordinance to give legal status to private schools.
In addition, the Management Committee demanded of the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE), Islamabad to affiliate all the private schools as soon as possible to save the future of nearly 80 thousands children.
They accused the FBISE that without inspection, the Federal Board turned down affiliation applications.
Currently, over 400 private schools are functional in the jurisdiction of Islamabad Capital Territory in violation of CDA's building by-laws.
They lamented that CDA allotted plots in Sector H-9 to only big and approachable private educational institutions while the others were completely ignored.
Notices were issued to 200 private schools who started their business before 1999 under Phase I whereas rest of institutions would be removed from the residential areas during next phase.
The schools established prior to December 1999 can shift their premises to other locations, as per criteria laid down for the purpose by CDA but till yet they were not allotted specified places.
Capital Development Authority under Chairman orders had stopped giving permission for new schools in the Capital.
CDA had stopped operation against private schools on timely intervention by the Federal Education Minister Zubaida Jalal.
The CDA had launched the campaign against the illegal institutions on the directives of the interior ministry. The CDA had already sealed 10 schools in sectors F-8 and F-10.
Sources said that the Authority had decided to take action against around 270 schools, running illegally in Islamabad.
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