The number of grievances in the complaints cell formed by the Education department here crossed hundred figure marks on Friday. The harassed parents are coming out and registering their complaints against the loot of the private school owners.
The complaints of the parents vary from issues of hike in fees to the harassment of their wards by private school authorities. One parent complained that the prestigious Saint Joseph’s Academy distributed more than 2,000 registration forms for 200 seats in the Nursery Class. In violations of RTE provisions the school took admission entrance examination.
The complainant said that the school did not select his ward and is now not providing the test copy. He accused the school of giving admission to unregistered candidates and not returning the Rs1,000 it charged as registration fees.
One of the complainants accused the Doon Academy School, Govindgarh of not promoting his Class VIII ward to higher class. The complaint against DAV public school Defence Colony was that it is refusing to promote ten students of class X to higher class. One parent complained that the Shri Guru Ram Rai (SGRR) School is demanding Rs1800 from every student in lieu of giving the report card. One of the parent complained that the authorities of Ann Mary School are not showing transparency in the Nursery admissions. The Jaswant Model School was accused of not giving admissions under the Right to Education (RTE).
The Chief Education Officer (CEO) SP Khali took a meeting of District education Officer (DEO) Primary, Parmendra Saklani and all the Block Education Officers (BEOs) of the district at his office on Friday. He asked all the officers to remain vigilant about the violations of RTE and take strict action against the erring schools.
Concerned over the large number of complaints against the private schools the District Magistrate of Dehradun, BVRC Purushottam convened a meeting of CEO, DEOs and BEOs at his office on Friday. Purushottam reviewed the status of complaints and asked the officials to implement RTE is right earnest.