Action of arbitrariness and pressurizing the parents to buy books from specified stores has continued as FIR against the Christ Memorial School Management located in Bairagarh (Sant Hirdaram Nagar), Bhopal has been made and the book store was also closed.
The school management was pressurizing the parents to buy books from a book depot only. While sealing the book depot, a case has also been registered against the operator. This action has been taken on another private school within three days.
SDM Upadhyay said that a case has been registered in the police station under section 188 for disobeying section 144. Action has been taken against Christ Memorial School Management and the operator of Shankar Book Depot.
SDM Upadhyay said that only the books of Christ Memorial School were sold at Shankar Book Depot. According to the information, the temporary shop named Shankar Book Depot in Krishna Plaza Shopping Complex was vacated. It was open for only one month. Parents had complained in this matter. Due to which this action was taken on Thursday. Earlier on Tuesday also an FIR was lodged against a private school.
Collector Ashish Singh had issued orders under Section 144 on this Monday to end the monopoly of private school operators, publishers and booksellers. Now the operators of private schools will not be able to force the students or parents to buy uniforms, shoes, ties, books, notebooks etc. from the designated shops only.
The Collector had instructed the SDM and DEO to take action against such school management. If a complaint is received against any school or institution, then disciplinary action was also taken against it. Due to this, this action has been taken on two schools.