Demanding check on the arbitrary attitude of the private schools, who charge exorbitant fee, the Shiksha Adhikar Manch here on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. It also demanded that the education at Government schools should be strengthened.
Addressing the mediapersons on Tuesday, Shiksha Adhikar Manch Secretary Anil Sadgopal said, “We have handed over a memorandum with three-point demand to the Chief Minister Shivraj. Our demands mainly include constitution of ‘fee monitoring and regulatory committee’ for the academic session 2015-2016 to check the tuition fee charged by the private schools and all the other additional expenses forcibly imposed on the parents.
The second demand mentions that an autonomous and duly authorised ‘Academic Committee’ should be formed to monitor the rates of the textbooks, workbooks and other educational material fixed or recommended by the private schools so that it can be ensured that the private schools are imparting education as per the constitution and ‘National curriculum framework-2005’.
The third demand stated that the State Government should present three year plan in the legislative assembly to make the government schools equivalent to central schools (Kendriya Vidyalaya) in terms of infrastructure and other facilities like ensuring teacher-student ratio, computer training, physical education, dance classes and equivalent curriculum to physically challenged.
Sadgopal further informed that in order to ensure proper implementation of our three point demands, ‘private school parents struggle committee’ has been constituted and an intensive public relation campaign would be organized so as to connect parents in large numbers.
On February 25, the Manch would contact people be done in Qazi camp at old city and ‘Action committees’ would be formed to monitor the private schools. “We appeal to the parents to take part in this campaign in large numbers,” he added.