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| Pvt school remains open in COVID times, Education department fails to act | | CEO Rajouri refuses to answer query, gets offended | | Rajesh Tandon
EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, Feb 2: Although the government has ordered to open all educational institutions in JK UT after a period of ten months, the Education Department Rajouri failed to take action against a private school, which remained functional even during the restriction period. Moreover, the school management has allegedly forced students to deposit the entire fee for 2020-21 academic session.
Astonishingly, the Chief Education Officer Rajouri got offended, when the reporter asked him about the issue telephonically, wherein the CEO refused to talk to him by accusing that Early Times publishes baseless stories whereas the fact is that ET has never published any stories without evidence.
Some students of St Joseph Convent School Rajouri informed the Early Times that the school administration has treated them badly in connection with fee payment. “We were humiliated and insulted in front of entire class and asked us to bring full fee for 2020-21 academic session i.e from April 2020 to March 2021, despite the fact that government has exempted the full fee and had asked only to pay tuition fee but school administration in total disregard to the government order charging full fee for entire session,” they said. They further said that although schools have been officially opened from February 1, 2021 but St Joseph Convent School Rajouri has been conducting classes since October 2020 in violation of government guidelines.
“Not only this, even the students of classes 8th, 9th and 10th were clubbed in one class and were forced to sit together.
There was nothing sort of serious study and it was just a plan of hoodwinking the parents and students,” they alleged that it has been seen that students and teachers were sitting without masks and without maintaining social distance.
Students of class 6th and 8th informed that they were asked to deposit a fee, which is Rs 1200 and Rs 1300 per month respectively. Moreover, the students who were taking classes from home were forced to give exams in the school.
Despite reports of violations by the private schools, the office of Chief Education Officer (CEO) Rajouri has been acting as mute spectator. The locals alleged that the inaction of the department against such schools is due to corruption, which is paid to remain silent. “No team was set up to inquire about the reports of gross violations being made by the private schools. There are many schools, which don’t have proper infrastructure like playgrounds, toilets, classes etc.,” they said. |
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