Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 3: An urgent meeting of Executive members of central body of J&K Private Schools Association was held in the premises of Luthra Public School Jammu to discuss the fate of low budget private schools which are functioning in Jammu & Kashmir since decades.
Members termed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019 as historic decision as it ended the hegemony of the Kashmiri rulers and hoped that sufferings of Jammu region would come to an end with the new arrangements in place.
Highlighting the issues of Private schools and their management, the members unanimously requested the Lieutenant Governor to involve the representatives of J & K Private schools Association Jammu in the process before legislating any change in educational policy.
Members explained that since long the youth in the Jammu region have been suffering immensely due to nepotism, corruption and favoritism perpetuated by the influential. “In the last seventy years in the absence of any concrete educational policy, Government never bothered to train, update, inform and educate the self supporting big and small owners of private educational hubs whose number now runs somewhere to ten thousand. However, the recent enforcement of all Commercial and Labour Laws on these self financed hand to mouth low budget schools has posed a big challenge for them as they are solely dependent on this venture. These poor owners are in trauma due their insufficient budget as on the one hand Fee Fixation Committee has restricted the enhancement of fee for the J & K Government recognized schools and on the other hand there is no check in the mushrooming growth of unauthorized ,illegal and franchise based capitalists’ owned schools functioning from class nursery to 12th,’ they explained and demanded justice.
Those who attended the meeting, included Kamal Gupta (President J&K PSA), Ajay Gupta (General Secretary J&K PSA), Sanjeev Luthra (President Jammu District), Vishwa Mohan Sharma (Chairman Udhampur District), Rajeev Luthra , Lokesh Dutt Sharma , Satish Rahi and others.
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