Ambala, May 10
While parents have hailed a recent order issued by the Directorate, School Education, Haryana, asking private schools to ensure that only NCERT books are used, the private schools have decided to challenge the order in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Ajay Gupta, president, Parents Welfare Association, Ambala, said, “Several schools recommend particular books, available at selected shops, to students that were being sold at exorbitant rates due to the nexus between the school authorities and private publishers. We welcome the order issued by the directorate and the department should implement the orders strictly.”
Objecting to the order, Saurabh Kapoor, president, Integrated Private School Welfare Society, said “It is unrealistic to recommend NCERT books only. Quality of the content and low availability of NCERT books are the prime reason behind the private schools using books of private publishers. The books are selected by the principals on the basis of th
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Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, April 5
While their counterparts in Delhi will remain shut owing to surge in Covid cases, Gurugram private schools have started their new session today with a majority sticking to the online mode of education.
The commencement has left hundreds of parents of the EWS category children worried 134A of the Haryana School Education Rules (HSER), 2003. The private schools have neither registered nor displayed the EWS vacancies on their online admission portals as mandated.
The children who were not admitted by any school even in 2020 owing to the pandemic fear losing yet another year as not only schools have started without them but also no instruction or directive has been has been given by the Education Department regarding the admissions. The worried parents have approached the local department, but it has reportedly cited helplessness due to lack of any guidelines or instructions from the state directorate.