Girl Writes To Chief Justice About School Demanding Fee

The picture of the letter is going viral on social media.

Lahore (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 17th July, 2018) A school going girl has written a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar.

The picture of the letter is going viral on social media.

The girl addresses the chief justice in the letter, saying that you said that we are not required to pay our summer vacation dues but the school administration is asking for the fee. In fact, they have taken the fee for the month of June from us three siblings and are also asking for a payment for books.

The girl also mentioned the name of her school in the letter and reminded him of his statement that we should go Naran Kaghan with that money.

"Now the vacations are ending and they are asking for fee. My father said that we need to pay the school for books as well as they are not available in the market. We will also not be able to get a goat on this Eid," she wrote.

Calling him uncle, she said, “Uncle, suspend our fees, we will not go to Naran Kaghan but we have to get a goat. Please help us.”

Towards the end of the letter, the girl wrote that I have mailed this letter, please do reply.

CJP Nisar had on June 28 restricted private schools to collect summer vacation fees.

CJP Mian Saqib Nisar directed that a public notice should be issued for parents.

The CJP said that he is thinking to ask the government to take over private schools.

According to article 25-A of the Constituion, the state is responsible to provide education till 16 years of age. He said that the children of poor cannot study in a private school.

The CJP heard the case regarding private schools charging greater fees. The CJP also summoned attorney general during the hearing.

The counsel for private school owners, Salman Akram Raja, argued that he is representing the people collecting Rs 1500 to 3000 monthly fees. If we don’t take the two-month fee of summer vacation, we would have to close our schools.

To this, the CJP remarked that he is thinking to ask the government to nationalize private schools.

He said that if he would not have studied in a good school, he would have been a clerk. He said that education is the foundation of progress in the country, adding that he himself used to submit the summer vacation fee his father used to give him inside a book.

He said that the court can’t give a relief to the private schools without hearing out the parents.

The CJP said that the parents would have been happy for not paying summer vacation fee for the first time. They would have spent the fee on children’s recreation.