Govt. mulling against giving permission to private schools for three years
Bengaluru, June 13: The state government has planned not to give permission to open any private schools for next three years in the state.
It is said that the government has taken this decision to check the mushrooming of private schools year after year as the number of students in government schools is reducing considerably. The Primary and Secondary Education department has received total 2429 proposals to open private schools in 2018-19 academic year. But according to a senior officer in the department, the government would not consider those proposals this year.
It is said that the number of children in government schools is also decreasing because of Right to Education Act (RTE). Under this Act, a private school has to give 25 per cent seats for the financially backward students. Apart from this, the mushrooming of private schools within the radius of 5 km of government schools is causing problem for the admission into government schools. Keeping this in mind, the department has decided not to give permission to open any new private schools in the state. But the final decision into this effect is yet to take, the officer said.
However, Primary and Secondary Education Minister N Mahesh said that the government has decided to conduct the census of the private schools. Before giving permission to private schools, the department has to think twice. The government has established 176 model government schools equal to private schools. In the same way, few more such model schools would be established. Instead of giving permission to private school, the government is mulling improving the quality of the government schools. Fee fixation norm should be strictly implemented for private schools and make sure that the private schools are following the norm, he said.
Previous education minister Tanveer Sait had said that permission would not be given for private schools for next five years. But because of the influence of the private schools managements, then minister had backtracked from his decision. Among total applications, more applications were submitted from Bengaluru urban and Bengaluru South has submitted 369 applications, while Bengaluru North has 216 applications, sources said.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
