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Goa allows adoption of govt. schools

By Our Staff Correspondent

PANAJI, OCT. 5. Goa Cabinet on Tuesday approved a scheme for adoption of government primary and middle schools by aided institutions, private managements, and voluntary organisations.

The scheme is intended to utilise the managerial skills of managements to improve the quality of education and arrest the drop in enrolment in government schools.

As per the scheme, the government schools having enrolment rate of less than 20, located in the vicinity of the benefactor institution, would be considered for adoption.

Classes should be held in the same premises while the medium of instruction should continue to be Konkani or Marathi. The syllabi prescribed by the Goa Board of Secondary Education should be followed.

While the sponsors are barred from collecting any fee or charge in whatever name from students, the Government would provide to the benefactor Rs. 10,000 per annum towards maintenance, Rs. 3,000 towards books and stationery and reimbursement of actual water and electricity charges, besides supplying all the required material such as kits, learning material and so on.

The move comes in view of the gradual decline in the rate of admissions in government schools and public perception that private institutes were better.

On the other hand, the government said several managements running only high schools were keen on adding primary schools or had approached the Government with a proposal to adopt government primary and middle schools.

One of the conditions for adoption is that the sponsor should not make new appointments and should utilise the services of government teachers working in the school or get the services of government teachers of its choice working anywhere in the same taluk.

Except for service matters, the teachers would be under the control of management for administrative and academic purposes.

Such teachers would be considered as "on deputation" and the Government would only pay their salaries.

The management interested in adopting a school should have at least five years' experience in managing an educational institution, should have independent financial capabilities to run and maintain the adopted school and should not have misappropriated any government grant or aid or fund. While a management would be allowed to adopt only one school, the Government could permit adoption of more than one school considering the performance of the management. A committee headed by the Director of Education would scrutinise the applications and make selection.

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