Education minister promises to act on over 2,500 applications to start unaided schools and introduce fee regulation
Education minister promises to act on over 2,500 applications to start unaided schools and introduce fee regulation
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Moulding futures: The education minister said the bill for unaided
schools would be introduced in the winter session of the state cabinet.
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In the city yesterday to inaugurate the e-learning facility at the Camp Education Society, state education minister Rajendra Darda made the announcement that his ministry was working on a new bill, The Self Finance School Bill, under which private parties who have applied can start a school without government aid. The clause, however, would be that they follow all guidelines under the Right to Education Act as well as state notifications from time to time.
Upbeat: Rajendra Darda, state education minister
Promising to introduce this bill in the winter session of the state cabinet, Darda said that the education ministry had arrived at an estimate of new schools needed by doing a geographical mapping of schools in state.
"We even issued a GR with areas that needed schools and invited suggestions and applications from people.
Though we received many applications, we have to realise that we can't fund all schools and that's why we are giving permission to unaided schools," said Darda. The GPS mapping has first identified schools needed in rural areas and a similar exercise would be repeated for urban areas soon.
Questioned on the much promised Fee Regulation Act, i.e a law to regulate fees in private unaided schools, Darda said that a joint committee has been formed and seven meetings have been conducted so far. "The final meeting is on July 25 and the final draft would be ready by then," he said.
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