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Chandigarh 09th October:- Haryana Govt. is not sincere in implementation of RTE or Rule 134A to provide free education to poor and deserving students. Instead, it is engaged in spoiling the educational atmosphere of private schools in the state by cunningly creating a conflict between parents and private schools. It is pursuing the policies of previous Hooda Govt. regarding private schools while it had issued statements against these policies while in opposition. This was stated by Kulbhushan Sharma, the State President State Federation of Private Schools Haryana.
Kulbhushan Sharma said that panjab and Haryana High Court has clearly issued orders to Haryana Govt. to provide reimbursement to private schools for teaching EWS students under 134A. Private Schools are not against teaching EWS students but they demand ,"Fund the students, Not the Schools. He added that they demand Education Vouchers of minimum Rs. 1500/- per month to all students so that they have freedom to join the schools of their choice. When the govt., according to its own statements, is spending Rs. 28000/- per student in govt. schools, it plans to give only two hundred to four hundred rupees to poor students in private schools. It is a cruel joke on the private schools and the poor students studying in them. State Govt. itself is claiming about Rs. 18000/- per student from the Central Govt. for teaching poor students in govt. schools under RTE.
Students have a constitutional right to study in a school of their choice but the Govt. is forcing poor students under RTE to study in Govt. schools to pocket funds from the Central Govt and forcing EWS merit students under 134A to join schools chosen by govt. officials and not by students themselves.
Kulbhushan Sharma said that haryana Govt. talks of education on no-profit basis in private schools but it is charging private schools for water, electricity, property tax etc., at commercial rates. For water, electricity, property, the private schools are commercial bodies but for charging fees they are not commercial. It is clear that govt. is profiteering even from school education and directing private schools not to indulge in profiteering. He said that we demand that the govt. clearly decide whether private schools are commercial bodies or not. If they are not commercial, water electricity and property tax charges should not be commercial and if the govt. charges commercial rates for water, electricity, property tax, it should clearly declare them commercial organisations.
He further said that for the establishment of a new secondary school, education department requires a school to have minimum two acres of land and Town and Country Planning requires that a new school have a minimum of five acres of land. The Haryana Govt. on the whole is unable to decide how much land is required by a new secondary school. We demand that this anomaly should be removed.
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