Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 27: A meeting of small private schools was organized by the Ajay Gupta General Secretary JKPSA which was presided over by Sanjeev Luthra.
The members from small private schools showed their dismay for not granting recognition orders by the Education Department till date to the schools which were granted affiliation by the JKBOSE after 2019.
They also highlighted that issue of imposition Rs 19689 as late fee in addition to Rs 11050 by JKBOSE to the most of the private schools which have submitted online files for the extension affiliation/recognition without their fault as portal generated by the JKBOSE for online transition was defunct from June 30,2022 to July 19, 2022.
General Secretary of JKPSA Ajay Gupta briefed to the members that most of the small private schools are at the verge of collapse due to the callous attitude of the Government. The non serious of the Education Department cannot be ruled out because nowadays most of the schools are unauthorized as Education Department has fail to grant both recognition/permission even to those schools whose both recognition/permission/affiliation had lapsed on March 31, 2022.
“Government had also failed to mitigate the problems of private schools even highlighted in the online Integrated Grievance Redress and Monitoring System”, he added.
The members appealed to the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for his personal initiative to check the discrepancies which are being regularly committed by the Education and its allied department to save all the small private schools which are rendering yeomen services in rural, semi urban and urban areas since long.
Those who attended the meeting included Sat Pal Mansotra, Ajay Singh, Naresh Kumar, Rajeev Jasrotia, Dr Manmohan Singh, Rashpal Singh, Shiv Lal Sharma, etc.
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