Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Private Schools Regulatory Authority Notifies Panels For Registration, Renewal Of Private Schools

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Private Schools Regulatory Authority notified the District Scrutiny Committee for Private Schools registration and renewal.For Boys Schools, District Monitoring Officer would be Chairperson while Deputy District Education Officer (Male) as Member /Secretary and One Principal of High/Higher Secondary School nominated by DEO (M), Nominee of the Deputy Commissioner, Nominee of the private Schools from the concerned District to be nominated by the elected Private Members of concerned region of the authority as members.For Girls Schools,

PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 3rd Apr, 2018 ) :The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Private Schools Regulatory Authority notified the District Scrutiny Committee for Private Schools registration and renewal.For Boys Schools, District Monitoring Officer would be Chairperson while Deputy District Education Officer (Male) as Member /Secretary and One Principal of High/Higher Secondary School nominated by DEO (M), Nominee of the Deputy Commissioner, Nominee of the private Schools from the concerned District to be nominated by the elected Private Members of concerned region of the authority as members.For Girls Schools, District Monitoring Officer as Chairperson, Deputy District Education Officer (Female) as Member/ Secretary and One Principal of High/Higher Secondary School nominated by DEO (F), Nominee of the Deputy Commissioner (preferably Female), Nominee of the Private Schools from the concerned District to be nominated by the elected Private Members of concerned region of the authority as Members. The terms of references as envisaged in Section -33 of KP-PSRA Regulations-2017 shall be as under.

The District Scrutiny Committee, on intimation of e-filing of an application for registration or change or category or relocation or merger of a school or verification of continued fulfillment of the applicable norms and standards or on specific instructions shall proceed to determine the correctness of the facts relating to a School after physical verification and such scrutiny and inquiry as it maydeem necessary.

The District Scrutiny Committee shall have the powers to examine documents, require documents to be produced, receive statements on oath and direct the applicant to file affidavits.The District Scrutiny Committee shall, at any time, enter and inspect any School, whether registered or not: Inspect, Photocopy, print out, or copy onto Disk any documents) whether held in electronic or paper form) related to the School.

Collect any document described in sub-rule (3) (b), whether in its original form or as an electronic or paper copy after giving acknowledgment receipt duly signed by the chairman of the scrutiny committee; and talk with students, teachers and any other persons employed in the school or not, as the case may be, as the scrutiny committee may be deemed necessary within the framework set by the norms and standard committee; Provided that no inspection shall be conducted if the total available members of the District Scrutiny Committee for the inspection are less than three.Report of the Committee shall be signed by all the members present in the inspection.

The Chairperson of the District Scrutiny Committee shall forward report and final recommendations of the Committee to the Registration and Inspection Committee for further action. Recommendation of the District Scrutiny Committee shall be laid down on the basis of decision of the majority.