CHANDIGARH : Accusing government of
failure in disbursal of funds to private schools
which have admitted the students under RTE’s
section 134A, the private school operators on
Tuesday threatened to reduce intake for the
current session. Kulbhushan Sharma, state
president of the federation of private schools
association and national president of the National
Independent School Alliance (NISA) said that now
the government will be responsible for denying
to poor in this category.
He that about one lakh children are receiving free
education under 134 A in private school operators
running across the state. It was the responsibility
of the government under the RTE act to ensue
children get free education by the private school
operators as per the reimbursement of the per
child expenditure incurred in government
schools, but the Khattar government had not
paid any re-imbursement in the last four years.
He claimed that the Delhi government was
paying reimbursement of Rs 1700 per month to
private school operators .
Sharma said though the BJP government in the
state was taking credit of providing free
education for the poor children but all the claims
were at teh cost of private school . “ The lack of
Haryana
admission
paymen reimbersement from government has
forced private school operators to resolve that no
new admissions will be made under RTE till the
government does not settled all the old accounts.
An amount of over Rs 500 crore of
reimbursement to schools is outstanding which
teh government has still not cleared,’’ said
Sharma. He added that the private school
operators want to teach the poor, but the policy
and rules of the Khattar government were are
against the poor. He said that the association has
been constantly demanding that the
government should make direct cash deposits in
public money accounts opened by children and
their families so that children can choose their
school. For the past 6 years, private school
operators are teaching children of poor families
free of cost under 134 A, he added. Sharma said
that the association has consistently raised the
question that if the government did not give cash
vouchers to these children, then the burden of
the expenses of their studies would fall on the
90% of those other parents whose wards study in
those schools
Source: Times of India
