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| Parents Association protest against failure of Education Department to stop loot of private schools | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 14: Parents of children led by President of All Jammu Parents Association Amit Kapoor today staged a vigorous protest against the education department outside Hari Singh Park. The protesters were raising slogans against the looting caused by the nexus of the education department and private schools. He also shouted slogans against the arbitrary private schools and the director of the education department. Expressing his views on this occasion, Amit Kapoor said that the schools which have collected more fees from the children than the fees fixed by JKFFC, should be given back immediately. He hoped that the new chairman of JKFFC, understanding the agony of the parents, would immediately issue an order to refund the excess fees collected. He alleged that looting of private schools has created a furor at present while the education department and its directors have failed to take any action against these schools. He said that if the High Court has also said that even the schools which are under stay cannot charge more than the fees fixed by JKFFC, then why are those schools arbitrarily charging more fees from the children. He said that understanding the seriousness of the matter, the DCs of Jammu and Rajouri have issued orders to the parents to register their complaints but why are the rest of the DCs not doing so, is everything going well in their districts. He alleged that they are busy in setting up with all the schools. Kapoor said that why private schools are not using NCERT books and why are they not taking back the books of the children who have taken more books. Along with this, why the fees of the children from whom more fees have been collected are not being given back. He also asked why private schools are not implementing the Right to Education Act under which 25 percent free admission will be given to poor children. Kapoor did not hesitate to put the commissioner of the traffic department in the dock regarding the looting in private schools. He said that the matter is not only of looting in the matter of books and uniforms, but huge money is also being collected from the children in the name of transport and the Commissioner of the Transport Department is turning a blind eye to this matter. He said that the officials of the traffic department should also take cognizance of this matter and crack down on the schools which charge more money from the children in the name of transport. He said that if they fix the fare of passenger vehicles on kilometer basis then why they are not fixing their fare in case of loot by private schools. Kapoor further said that if a shopkeeper charges a customer more than the MRP, strict action is taken against him and even his shop is sealed. But even private schools are concerned about charging more than the fees fixed by JKFFC, then why such schools are not seized in this case. He said that this clearly shows that in the case of robbing the parents of the children, along with collecting books, uniforms and high fees, all the cases of looting in the name of transport are connected. Kapoor said that this is a huge mafia in which the education department as well as the transport department is in collusion with the private schools and this open looting has created havoc in the entire Jammu and Kashmir while the concerned authorities are yet to take any such concrete steps. have completely failed to restore the faith of the common people on the administration.
He asked LG Manoj Sinha that due to this looting there has been a tragedy and where are you sleeping. He demanded the LG to take immediate concrete steps to curb the mafia operating in the education department so that the parents of the children could be saved from being looted by this mafia. |
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