Conflicting demands are being raised without taking into consideration practicability of the proposals. On one side they are looking for free education up to class XII on the other hand they are asking to control the management of private schools. Not a single demand has been made with regards to insufficient number of Government Schools, poor quality of infrastructure and poor quality of teachers in Government schools. Is it practical to implement Allahabad high court's decision with regards to compulsory admission of children of Government Employees in Government schools? The day government brings any such law, not only existing government employees will quit but new applicants will stop coming. Do we all realize that despite all the short comings of private sector, if it was not for the private educational institutes, half of the country would have been illiterate today. They have talked of regulating the fee, but has anybody talked of ever increasing burden of pay commissions and DA. As per government rules, teachers have to be given annual increment of three percent plus the DA increase during the previous year which is never less than 7%. If schools do not increase their fees by 8 to 10% how are they going to meet the increasing costs? Seeing one side of the picture is not going to help the matters.
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Subject: [MTC Global] Parents' Association calls for regulated private fee structure, other educational mandates
In a conference on Sunday, parents of students from the All India Parents' Association (AIPA) made certain demands before the government with respect to education, including that children of government employees be mandatorily admitted to government schools.
"Laws should be enacted to regulate fees and other charges in private schools, besides bringing all minority schools in the country within the ambit of the Right to Education," the AIPA quoted to have said in a PTI report.
The Delhi-based organisation, with members consisting of parents from 18 Indian states, sought the enactment of a national law on the lines of the Allahabad High Court judgement in August 2015, which directed that all government employees to send their children to the government schools.
"We should have a new and better education policy to realise the dream of our former President APJ Abdul Kalam, who wanted primary teachers to inculcate creativity in schoolchildren," said AIPA member Indrani Banerjee.
She also noted that the kind of education being provided in schools has been declining since post liberalisation. The quality of education is further going down due to "commercialisation" in the sector.
Schools run by the government would continue to remain "bureaucratic exercises" unless the government spends more on education like in the UK and France, said another AIPA member.
It was due to lack of "holistic development" in school curriculum, causing rise in the number of drop-outs from public schools and increase in the number of private schools, he added.
Moreover, the President of AIPA, Ashok Agarwal, said, "We want a central regulatory body for fee structuring with a decent representation of parents."
"The government should amend the Right to Education Act to make schooling compulsory up to class 12 instead of 8th standard. Also, school education should be made completely free," he said.
[Source: India Today]
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