- A CBSE affiliated school, Presidium Indrapuram, in Ghaziabad has issued transfer certificates to a few students in the middle of the session on July 25, defying CBSE rules and Bye-laws, Article 21A of the Constitution in particular and of Section 16 of the RTE Act in general.
- Parents had been protesting against exorbitant fee hikes and illegal charges. Their wards have been targeted in particular. After the fee hike when the parents approached the admin in-charge (Gaurav), they were asked to wait. Later, Presidium CEO Matharoo, despite ADM intervention on July 25, started issuing TCs the same day, defying all laws, rules and regulations.
- Many parents said that strucking off kids’ names mid-session is a very callous thing to do and is totally against the child’s right to education. It can have serious impact on the child’s mind.
- Watch the video to see the sympathetic conditions of the children and parents:
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- What are the rules that are being flouted by this school?
- CBSE Affiliation Bye-Laws:
- Rule 8.8 iv : Every affiliated school to develop their own website containing comprehensive information such as affiliation status, details of infrastructure, teachers, students, address, postal and emails, telephone numbers
- Rule 8.8 v : Every school should prepare its annual report containing above information and upload the same on its website before September 15 of a year
- Rule 11.1 : Fee charges should be commensurate with the facilities provided by the institution. Fee should normally be charged under the heads prescribed by the Department of Education of the state/UT for schools of different categories
- Rule 11.3 : The unaided schools should consult parents through parents’ representatives before revising the fees. The fee should not be revised during the mid session
- Point 13 : The school seeking Board’s affiliation/already affiliated to it shall be open to inspection by the Inspection Committee deputed by the Board or the Education Department of the State/Union Territory in which it is situated, provided that such Inspection Committees shall invariably include Board’s representatives
- Rule 13.3.(i) : The school should prepare its annual report containing comprehensive information including name, address postal and e-mail, telephone numbers, affiliation status, period of provisional affiliation, details of infrastructures, details of teachers, number of students, and status of fulfilment of norms of affiliation Bye-Laws and post same on the website before September 15 of every year
- Rule 19.1 ii : It shall ensure that the school is run as a community service and not as a business and that commercialisation does not take place in the
- [Source”indianexpress”]
