JAIPUR: District education officers here are openly flouting rules and regulations governing inspection of private schools in the city.
While conducting inspections , these officers are seeking documents/affidavits which are not listed in the The Rajasthan Non-Government Educational Institutions Act, 1989. TOI has copies of documents revealing the wide difference between the provisions of Act for recognition of privates schools and a list of 25 documents prepared by education officers for the process.
The documents prepared by education officers sought from the schools includes an affidavit stating that pollution level of the area around the institute is not mentioned in the act. Besides, they also sought 30 years lease agreement document, in case land is not owned by the school concerned. This clause of the Act was omitted in 2011.
''The officers also asked to submit videos of our school buildings, ground and other facilities, which are not required under the law. The inspection process which could have lasted for hours only ran for two weeks,'' said a principal of a private school which underwent the inspection process recently.
Such school authorities made efforts to bring provisions of Act into the notice of officers but in vain. In fact, asking for single-seated furniture for every student has put the schools in a jittery. The inspections of many schools were also postponed due to erratic process followed by the inspection team, according to some schools.
Only a few schools dared to complain to education minister Brij Kishore Sharma, who met senior education officers and school authorities to sort out the matter on March 13.
Sharma said, ''The Act is supreme and sacrosanct. The guidelines have to be derived from the Act. Any deviation from the Act amounts to violation which should be followed by imposition of penalties.''
District education officer (Elementary) S C Meena agreed that they asking for some documents which are not listed in the Act and said, ''They are equally important for awarding recognition.'' He, however, passed the buck on to the state government saying that district authorities have no role in preparing the list of 25 documents.
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