Owners rally for schools reopening
Lahore
December 18, 2020
LAHORE:Dozens of private school owners, teachers and other staff members taking out a rally demanded the government for early reopening of schools and a special financial package to save low-cost private schools from severe financial crisis.
The “Save Education” rally organised by All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association (APPSMA) was also attended by representatives of private colleges and tuition centres. The rally started from Nasser Bagh and culminated at GPO Chowk where the organisers also spokes on the occasion and expressed their serious concerns over the schools’ closure during the on-going second wave of Covid-19. The speakers were of the view that low-cost private schools were badly hit by the closure as majority of the parents were not paying monthly fees while the campuses were receiving hefty utility bills and various kinds of taxes. They also said because of absence online education facili