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Patna,(BiharTimes): Private schools which fail to get registered to the human resources development department by September 30 is likely to face action from the state government.
Such schools would either be made to pay heavy fine or could be asked to close down.
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According to HRD Principal Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh the deadline for all private elementary schools, that is from Class I to Class VIII, to get recognition from the state government would expire on September 30. The schools have to submit their accounts details for the past three years while applying for recognition.
This move would help the government ascertain the exact number of private elementary schools and compel them to improve their infrastructure.
He said schools get affiliated to different boards like ICSE, CBSE or state board for examination purpose but recognition of the HRD is related with assessing the infrastructure facility and teachers’ strength in the schools.
The HRD Secretary said schools which lack infrastructure would be given time for improvement while those having no infrastructure would be closed down.
However, the private institutions are up in arms against state government’s letter in this regard issued in May last.
The Co-ordination Committee of the Public School Association of Bihar has, however, strongly criticized the state government’s decision. The Association claimed that as the case was pending in Supreme Court, the state government should have waited some more time.
As per the new norms laid down on the basis of Right to Education schools running up to upper primary level, that is from Class VI to Class VIII, should have separate teachers for Science, Mathematics, Social Studies and Languages.
Schools should have all-weather buildings with at least one classroom for every teacher and an office-cum-principal’s room. The co-educational schools should have separate toilets for boys and girls.
Besides, schools are supposed to have safe and adequate drinking water facility for all children. They should also have playgrounds, sports kits and boundary walls.
Schools running on the rented premises is likely to be the main sufferer.
Private school managements while talking to BiharTimes dubbed the whole exercise as nothing but government sponsored move to extort money. “Sometimes back they charged money from the coaching institutes in the name of registration. Now it is the turn of the private schools. Why do not the state government improve infrastructure and appoint adequate teachers in its own school?, one of them asked.
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