The Times of India          19.11.2010

BMC issues notice to Dadar school

MUMBAI: The BMC served on Thursday a show-cause notice to King George School in Dadar for not sharing a mandatory portion of its profits with the corporation.

According to civic guidelines, schools constructed on reserved municipal plots must hand over to the corporation 33%, or Rs 40,000, whichever is higher, as a share of the earnings from leasing out the premises for weddings and social functions. The school was served a notice as it did not comply with norms, officials said. tnnThey added it was one of the first cases where a private school had been pulled up despite several of these being guilty of not complying with the corporation's rules and regulations. "Many of these schools also do not keep 15 per cent of their seats for municipal schoolchildren," a senior BMC official said.