Representatives from 22 states, including Jharkhand, demanded the Central Government to ban the arbitrary functioning of private schools, creating private school control rules.
The demand was raised in the all India meeting of different Guardian Associations, held in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.
The guardians also demanded that the State Governments should issue necessary guidelines for the same. They also sought ensuring compliance with the provisions of Right to Education Act 2009 and compliance with the terms of the NOC for the private schools being taken by the State Government.
The guardians also demanded ensuring literal compliance of affiliation rules in schools affiliated with CBSE and ICSE boards and agreed on attempting to reinforce the Government and common guardians by trying to restrain private school teachers from attempts to promote commercialisation in the field of education.
The representatives from across the country pondered on certain specific points including taking legal opinion on what can be legally done to stop commercialisation in Education, what are the areas / sub - areas / agencies topics where legal initiative can be taken, what preparations, resources we would need to achieve this?
They also discussed on how to create more awareness among the parents regarding How to create more awareness among the parents regarding RTE and RTI , what should be done to add more parents and parents association to this movement, how to achieve the optimum reach through Social Media and what preparations, resources they would need to achieve the same?
State president of Guardians Forum Ajay Rai said that representatives from different States reached a consensus on the issue that there should be one education policy within the country.