The Hindu       06.08.2014 

Tirupur Mayor assures parents help regarding school

Tense moments prevailed at the Corporation office here on Tuesday after a large number of parents whose children study in the matriculation school run by Rotary Club of Tirupur came up with a demand to permanently run the school on the present campus itself.

They appealed to Mayor Visalakshi Appukutty and Corporation Commissioner M. Ashokan in the wake of the Supreme Court verdict on July 30 that upheld the Madras High Court order asking the Rotary Club school to shift from the campus of Jaiva Bhai Corporation Girls Higher Secondary school. The Rotary school had been functioning on the campus owned by municipal land where the said Corporation school too was located without the proper concurrence of the government or the Collector.

Parents asked the Mayor to allow the school to function permanently on the same campus itself taking into consideration the plight of the children studying there. “Coaching in the school has been good and the fee was lesser among the matriculation schools,” N. Vinod, a parent, claimed.

Mrs. Visalakshi clarified to the parents that the administration would have to follow the court guidelines.

“However, we will ensure alternative steps for the children to continue with their education without any break,” she said.

Contemp of court

Meanwhile, A. Eswaran, past president of Parent Teachers Association in Jaiva Bhai Corporation School in whose period the case was taken up in High Court, said contempt of court proceedings would be initiated if the Rotary school did not vacate the premises even after the Supreme Court verdict.