Indian Express 22.06.2010
Parties take on civic body education board
Express News Service Tags : education board Posted: Tue Jun 22 2010, 05:40 hrs
Pune: Elected representatives from various political parties on Monday took on the PMC education board for failing to take swift action against the private schools hiking school fee by neither taking consent from parents nor approval from the state government.The issue was raised by MNS corporators, saying the private school management was harassing people by hiking the school fees. “There is no check on these private schools,” they said.
Shiv Sena corporators joined the protest, demanding action by the civic administration against those schools not following the norms set up by the state government. Standing committee chairman Arvind Shinde sought a clarification from the administration on the powers wrested with them on initiating action against errant schools and the actual action initiated so far.
“The civic education board is keeping a close watch on the private schools and can initiate action only after their is a written complaint filed,” said Ramchandra Jadhav, PMC education officer.
He said the civic body serves notice to the school, seeking explaination on fee hike without state government permission and recommends de-recognition of school if there is no permission taken for the fee hike.
“We have been recommending action against the schools for violating the norms,” Jadhav said.
