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Private schools not to run in residences
Bad news for private schools running in residences of the city. The state government has decided to remove all such schools from their places of existence for having violated the prescribed norms for opening such institutions.
The government admitted in the state legislative council on Friday that eight private schools functioned in the residences of the North and South S K Puri locality alone.
Moreover, five of them had even been granted no-objection certificates (NOCs) for CBSE/ICSE affiliation, it added.
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Delhi needs new by-laws more schools says minister
THE only way the 1700 government-recognised schools operating from unauthorised land in Delhi can escape sealing is by coming under the ambit of local civic bodies and the creation of new bylaws says Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely.
The minister recently wrote to the Union Development Ministry asking for protection for these schools. After the request we made there has been an amendment in the 2001 Masterplan and these schools have been given a moratorium till 2007. We want the local body to be able to draft by-laws for these schools. For instance
The government has decided to check the mushrooming of private schools in the developed zones of the state so that education reaches areas where the literacy rate is low.
So, unless private groups decide to set up schools in backward areas, they may not get a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the government.
The government has set up district-level school mapping committees, which will examine the area-wise concentration of primary and secondary schools. They will also identify the places where there is a scarcity of schools.
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The CBSE decision to prevent its teachers from taking private tuitions at home will probably push students into paying more attention in school.
Talk about private tuitions, and youll probably be reminded of the film Sir. But in real life, neither are Pooja Bhatt and Atul Agnihotri the students nor is Naseeruddin Shah the guru. And to top it all, the situation isnt as hunky dory as the happy go lucky reel life story either. Not for the teachers at least. The Central Board of Students Education (CBSE) has prohibited its teachers from giving private tuitions to students. And predictably,
Haryana and Jharkhand are the only two states to have opted for securing copyright of NCERT books and outsource the printing to private players.
Every other state, central schools and private schools in the country following the CBSE syllabus, purchases them directly from the NCERT. Besides private schools affiliated to the CBSE, 10 other states follow the syllabus in government schools.
The reason is not very far to seek. Jharkhand requires NCERT textbooks worth Rs 50 crore every year, the bulk of which are meant for free distribution to students of government schools.
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The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government has softened its stand in the face-off with Christian missionary schools and Anglo-Indian institutions, but the move has yielded little.
After proposing to bring the minority institutions under the purview of a new legislation drawn up to exercise more control over all categories of aided and unaided private schools the government has sweetened the pill by offering a set of sops.
All private schools, including the minority institutions, will be included in the new legislation, which has been formulated to ensure better and smoother functioning of these institutions. But the schools having valid minority status certificates