Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 14: The Jammu Private Schools & ETT Institutes Association, (Progressive) today submitted memorandum to Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Tara Chand highlighting their demands and grievances for his sympathetic consideration.
The Association demanded that the joint inspection conducted by J&K State Board of School Education and Education Department and joint committee of Recognition/Affiliation of BOSE and Education Department may be treated as final for granting extension of Recognition/Affiliation of Private Schools.
Requiring separate order of extension of recognition from Secretariat causes un-necessary delay coupled with harassment and hence a clear cut policy needs to be framed and orders may be issued in this behalf to relieve the private schools of great mental tension and harassment, the Association added.
The memorandum further says that about 90 percent Private Schools are running with deficit budget. The staff engaged by them stays hardly for 6-12 months and are mainly educated, un-employed and frustrated ones or retired ones and are paid the minimum possible wages. Charging them 12 percent as PF adds to the agony of these un-employed who resent the same badly. It is therefore requested that Government should squarely bear the expenses to the extent of 26 percent as PF in favour of un-employed educated youth which will go a long way in helping them, it explained.
Resenting the Government decision of declaring Private Schools as commercial Institutions, the Association demanded that the Private Schools be excluded from the purview of Labour Department.
In the memorandum, the Association urged the Deputy Chief Minister to intervene into the matter personally and issue necessary directions to the concerned authorities to save the Private Schools of undesired pecuniary strain and subsequent harassment.
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