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| HC likely to form panel to check 'unwarranted fleecing' by education institutions | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 11: Responding to the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) titled Parents Body v/s State, the J&K High court is likely to constitute a committee of experts for making recommendations to deal with the menace of fleecing of parents and students by some schools in Valley.
As the hearing in a Public Interest Litigation titled Parents Body v/s State started before a division bench of the court comprising Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Ali Mohammad Magrey, amicus curie Advocate G A Lone submitted some schools are fleecing the children and their parents in the name of purchase of books, stationery and issuance of identity cards.
Subsequently, he prayed to the court to direct constitution of a Committee of experts who will make recommendations to deal with the menace which, he said, was rampant in some schools. The court requested councilor appearing on behalf of petitioners to suggest few persons of high reputation who could be members of the panel. He sought some time to suggest the names and was granted by the Division Bench.
Advocate Lone also submitted some schools in Pulwama and Srinagar reportedly continued to harass the students and their parents and forced them to pay fee for September and October, when valley was ravaged by worst ever floods. "Interim directions issued from time to time to continue till next date before the bench," the Division Bench said.
He also submitted that the Government itself in as much as mass promotion has been ordered to be given to the students studying in class 1st to 9th and 11th except 10 and 12th in Kashmir division and winter zone of Jammu.
Pertinent to mention here that state government announced mass promotion last week taking into account prolonged disruption of schooling in the Kashmir and winter zone of Jammu division due to last year's devastating floods.
"The students shall be elevated to the next level with immediate effect," Shaleen Kabra, Commissioner Secretary School Education Department had said in an order issued here on the weekend. He said that a n umber of educational institutions were closed down due to unprecedented floods and heavy rainfall in September and most of the schools could not be made fully functional for a long time due to damage suffered by the buildings, unsafe or unhygienic conditions and also water logging. Because of the situation, he said, exams had been deferred from Oct-Nov 2014 to March 2015. As per official figures, out of total 14238 schools across the Valley (11638 government and 2610 private), 1405 (1096 government and 309 private) were fully or partially damaged due to the floods. The schooling in the state, Kabra said, comes under the purview of Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) Scheme which envisages that a student has to undergo recurring examination for the whole academic session in the form of unit tests and term tests. However, he said, the final exams of the 2nd term could not be held due to the floods. |
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