The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has allowed schools to open for the first five days of the month for the disbursement of salaries to teachers and staff.
According to a notification, a maximum of four people from the administration will be allowed to disburse salaries while no more than five people are allowed inside to receive salaries.
Meanwhile, the Sindh government has directed all private schools to give at least 20 per cent concession in their tuition fee for the months of April and May to provide relief to the parents hit by coronavirus lockdown. In a notification issued on Tuesday by the provincial education department, the officials said the orders will be enforced strictly in “letter and spirit”.
The government has also established a cell, where parents can lodge their complaints in case of non-compliance with its directives.
The officials also said the teaching and non-teaching staff can also register their complaints if they are not being paid salaries for the aforementioned duration.
The development comes a day after Punjab government, in a similar decision, directed all private schools to give 20 per cent concession in tuition fee in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak. However, the private schools association rejected the government’s directives.
The federal government last month extended the closure of all educational intuitions across the country till May 31 with the consensus of all provincial authorities in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus.
The nationwide tally of COVID-19 patients has soared past 4,050 with 2,004 cases in Punjab, 986 in Sindh, 500 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 202 in Balochistan, 211 in Gilgit-Baltistan, 83 in Islamabad, and 18 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
