Parents urged the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government to monitor the price hike of private schools text books in the province and check their increased price.
Private schools sector is using international publishers’ text books. The publishers have increased the prices of primary level books unprecedentedly. Parents were surprised by the price hike and they were bound to purchase them regardless of their affordability.
Sajid Mir, 38, a father of three school going children while talking to APP said, “We are unable to afford the high cost of education in private schools already. Now, this hike would press more on our budget”.
He further said that for the sake of kickbacks and competition with other schools, private education sector selects international publisher’s books for the students.
Sajid Mir said that more than fifty per cent books were locally published on low quality papers but the local publishers are charging more with the name of international publishers.
Federal and provincial governments have to discourage this trend and form a committee for the solution of syllabus issue for private education sector; otherwise, private education would be out of bounds for middle and lower middle income group.
