Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 13: A delegation of Jammu Kashmir Private Schools Association today called on Piyush Singla, Commissioner Secretary School Education Department, and presented him a memorandum of demands.
The main points that were discussed during the meeting, included the demand for co-opting a representative of a recognized school association as an expert member, fixing the upper limit of fee so that school authorities can charge the fee from the parents in accordance to the paying capacity, topography and geographical conditions of that particular area.
The delegation also demanded to allow all private schools to enhance their fee structure annually by 10 percent so that it can match with the annual inflation rate and varying price index, strictly impose the guidelines issued by the Government of India in January 2024 to generate a transparent mechanism of teaching & learning, curb the menace of dummy admissions in coaching centers/tutorials, display the list of all schools which are de affiliated/ de recognized/ unrecognized before the commencement of new Academic Session, fix the rates of dynamic affiliation fee (Up gradation / Affiliation) on the basis of per student instead of combined enrollment, generate a time bound and single window clearance mechanism for the issuance of NOCs from the different departments, instructions to JKBOSE to de-tag all such schools which are constructed on proprietary/ own land and which have registered their students of class 9th and 11th in the academic session 2022-24.
The Association urged the Commissioner Secretary that orientation programs should be organized through DIET to promote the proficiency of the teachers serving in the private schools.
Singla discussed all the points and he assured full cooperation by the department to improve the education system and resolve the genuine issues.
The JKPSA members in the delegation included Kamal Gupta, Ajay Gupta, Sat Pal Mansotra, Naresh and Deepak Handa.
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