With an aim to impart quality education to students, the Yogi Government has announced a slew of measures, including setting up laws to regulate fee structure in private schools, strict action against education mafias and cheating or mass copying, to spruce up the education sector in the State.
The instructions were issued on Monday after a presentation by the education department before the Chief Minister. The proposals suggest regularisation of academic session of all the universities and common syllabus for all schools and colleges besides bio-metric attendance of teachers and students.
Welcoming the initiative, the State unit of BJP claimed that such measures will certainly improve the education quality in the State. “The CM is always in action and his directives for the education sector would bring a revolution in the education fields,” said UP BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak.
According to the directives, the CM asked officials to bring a legislation to provide relief to parents from exorbitant fees which are increased every year. The secondary education department will prepare a draft ordinance titled ‘UP Schools (Regularisation of Fee Collec-tion), 2016’. The Ordinance will be placed before the Cabinet after seeking opinions from all stakeholders. The Ordinance would prevent private from charging exorbitant fees.
The Government plans to put in place stringent provisions like de-recognition and cancelling the registration of schools for charging more fees than prescribed by the fee regulating committee. Five other states Rajasthan, TN, Delhi, Gujarat and Maharashtra have already brought in similar legislation to regulate fees.