Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 20: High Court has directed the Board of School Education (BOSE) to accord recognition and affiliation of schools provisionally who have no NOC of their land use for the future of the students.
Dozens of schools filed contempt proceedings against the BOSE authorities for non-compliance of court direction whereby they were directed to provisionally accord recognition/affiliation to the petitioner school and also to release the Registration Return Forms with respect to the students of the petitioner’s schools.
The counsel for the schools submitted that the direction of the court with regard to provisional affiliation has gone begging as the Board has not bothered to act in compliance to the direction so given by this court.
Justice Rahul Bharti said a case for non-compliance of the court direction is made out and issued notice to the respondents.
“In the meantime, the respondents are sounded a caution to consider the compliance of the writ court direction as it obtains with respect to the future of the students undergoing their education in the petitioner’s schools”, Justice Bharti directed.
The BOSE has also filed applications seeking modification of the order directing the Board of School Education (BOSE) to release the Registration Return Forms (RRFs) to the dozens of private schools who have failed to submit their No Objections Certificate (NOC) from the revenue department for land use of school buildings.
Dozens of Private Institutions have approached the High Court seeking directions that the Board be directed to release the RRFs to these institutions so as to enable their students of 9th and 10th classes enrolled in these schools, to seek registration with the Board.
The court has directed the Board to issue to release the RRFs to these schools subject to the regulations of 1992 with the conditions that the RRFs shall remain subject to outcome to these writ petitions.
It is being contended by the Board that in order to regulate the procedure for registration of private schools, Government of J&K in exercise of its statute, issued SO 177 of 2022 which requires private schools to submit NOC from the Revenue Department regarding land use including documents relating to possession of the land required for building, playground for seeking registration and extension of registration for the purpose that that school is built upon the land which has been acquired by these schools either by way of forceful occupation or by any unlawful means .
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