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Education department circular warns parents about illegal schools in the division.
The secondary education department of the Kolhapur Zilla parishad has discovered that a host of schools are illegal due to regulatory problems. Not only has the administration moved in to cancel the recognition of these schools but also has warned the parents about ignorantly ending up admitting the
One of the clauses introduced in the Right to Education Act (RTE) ensures the recognition status of schools as long as they comply with the Infrastructure norms of the Act along with procuring a yearly recognition letter from the respective region education department.
The secondary education department of the Kolhapur Zilla parishad has discovered that a host of schools have not fulfilled the required criteria and hence have been termed illegal.
Not only has the administration moved in to cancel the recognition of these schools but also has warned the parents about ignorantly ending up admitting their wards in an illegal school in the city via a circular by the secondary education department officer Jyotsna Shinde.
The circular said that class X students from these illegal schools will not be allowed to submit their examination forms from any nearby schools.
Further tightening the screws on dubious elements starting schools, the officer said that any organisation starting an illegal secondary school in the academic year 2016-17 will invite a criminal complaint under the Right to education (RTE) Act.
The officer is very keen to reduce the number of these illegal schools and feels that she has been forgiving enough towards these schools – giving them sufficient time to wind up their operations. However, since they haven’t heeded a fine of ₹1,00,000 will be charged from them and if they continue operations even after the fine is collected then a detrimental charge of ₹10,000 to be collected from such schools for every day they continue to operate after paying the initial fine and lastly the possibility of lodging a criminal complaint even if they don’t cease their operations after multiple penalties.
Shinde, however, has not revealed the number of such illegal schools or the names of such schools operating in her division.
The district education department officials clarified that private un-aided schools are often illegal. A school is deemed to be illegal when they are non-recognised/ disapproved for failing to produce required documents and/or failing to comply with the required norms set by the state government.
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