Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, July 16: To highlight the sufferings of small private schools of Jammu division, a meeting of all district presidents along with their secretaries was convened by the central body of the J&K Private Schools Association, here today.
While speaking, members alleged that the Government was hell-bent to demoralize all small private schools in the name of NOCs by different Departments for recognition and affiliation.
They explained that Sub Divisional Magistrates of different areas use different types of nomenclatures for the grant of Chemical Lab Safety Certificate which differs from area to area, school to school and man to man. Usually Patwaris, ZEOs, BMOs and some times police officials of particular areas where private school is established harass owners of the small private school functioning in the far flung and rural areas on the one pretext or the other, they alleged.
“One has to move from pillar to post as Government has intermingled the number of departments without any solid ground to check the viability of already established schools for the issuance of NOCs which are needed for the recognition/ affiliation purposes,” they said.
Ajay Gupta, President of the Association alleged that the Government adopts different rules for schools running in Jammu division as compared to the schools running in Kashmir division. “The validity of NOC building safety in Jammu division is one year while in Kashmir it is five years. In Kashmir, the details sought in CID verification are much less as compared to Jammu,” he said.
The Association appealed the Government to review all SROs/ circulars/ notifications viz SRO123/SRO292 (amended)/ SO177/SO233/ circular 02 etc to categorize the schools in different categories because considering small private schools with big schools, schools functioning at far flung/ rural areas with schools functioning in urban areas, schools having high enrollment with the schools having low enrollment at par is unjustified.
Those who spoke in the meeting, included Ajay Singh, Gourav Charak, Siddheshwar Sadotra, Sanjeev Luthra, Dr M M Sharma, Kanika Sharma, Lal Chand, Rashpal Singh, Chain Singh, Laddi Sharma, Vishal Jamwal, Naresh Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Parshotam Bhardwaj, Anil Choudhary, Deep Dayal, Sham Vaid, Rajeev Jasrotia, Shabir Ahmed, Subash Chander, Satya Pal ,Naresh Verma, Bodh Raj, Rajat Kesar and Ashok Sharma.
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