Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 29: Movement for Peace, Equality and Justice (MPEJ) today criticized the State administration for doing injustice with private unaided schools of the State.
Giving details of exemplary discrimination with private unaided schools vis-a-vis Government schools, Kuldeep Kumar Rao and Ram Singh Chauhan, members of MPEJ, in a joint statement issued here today expressed anguish over the double standard and yardstick adopted by Government vide SRO: 123 dated 18-03-2010 in regulating the private schools in the State.
They said that that the private schools are required to renew/extension period of Recognition/Affiliation after every 2 to 3 years with a huge burden of formalities where as no such renewal/extension is required in Government schools. “Further the accommodation required for private schools in respect of Principal room, staff room, office room, laboratory room is beyond one’s imagination”, they added.
The MPEJ members said that the Building safety certificate, Fire safety certificate, Chemical safety certificate, etc are another burden on private schools simply to harass the concerned whereas no such binding is imposed on Government Schools.
Citing a news item of local print media related to one Government owned school where where six teachers @ almost Rs. 1.5 lakh per month were assigned the duty to teach merely eight students, the MPEJ members said this is again a mockery at the cost of public money.
They said though both types of schools impart the same education to the students, notwithstanding that in both types of Schools, the public money is involved, the discrimination with private unaided schools on the part of the authorities is not justified at all and immediate reconsideration in the matter by Governor NN Vohra is therefore required.
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