A meeting of heads of private schools of the district took place with deputy commissioner Mukesh Kumar in collectorate on Tuesday. In this meeting DC Kumar made it clear to everyone running private schools in the district that they will have to follow the rules of Right to Education especially in taking admission of students of BPl families, fee hike, maintenance of buses and security.
In this meeting, DC Kumar went through the details of admissions taken by private schools in current session as per the rules of RTE. He directed everyone to organise special camps in their schools with the help of District Education Department to take admission of students belonging to poor and deprived families.
Regarding fee hike he said that it cannot be beyond the permissible 15 per cent mark. He directed the heads of two schools who had increased fee more than this limit this year to review their decision. Regarding school buses he cleared that number of students in a bus should not be more than its capacity.
In this meeting he requested the heads of private schools to spare one teacher from their school for atleast a day in a week to teach in nearby Government schools so that the students of Government schools can get benefitted.
He also appealed to involve the students in activities of Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan to give a better message to the denizens to make their town clean and healthy.