Karachi, Chairman All Private Schools Management Association Sindh (APSMAS) Syed Khalid Shah has demanded of the Sindh Education Department to allow the private schools to increase their fees by at least 10 percent.

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday at Karachi Press Club, he said that the private schools of the Sindh were facing financial crisis due to increasing bills of gas and electricity, building rental, maintenance, increase in salaries of teachers, security arrangements, taxes and other expensive, so the government should allow them to increase their fees by 10 percent of instead of routine practice of 5 percent per annum. Shah also demanded the Directorate Private Institution Sindh to establish a complaint cell for administration of private schools, so that they could lodge complains about their problems. The APSMAS has directed its all district officer-bearers for establishing relief camp at the private schools of interior Sindh and collect commodities and funds for the flood survivors, Shah said. He said that the APSMAS has also directed private schools to participate in anti polio campaign. He appealed the district governments to fumigate in vicinity of private schools to prevent spread of dengue virus, while the management of private schools would also arrange fumigation inside their premises. ENDS-PPI NNNN 9/20/2011 6:30 AM