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Schools, colleges defer bandh

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Education Minister assures grants would not be reduced

JAIPUR: Private educational institutions in Rajasthan on Wednesday deferred their decision to observe a day's bandh and stage demonstrations on January 21 in protest against the State Government's decision to reduce grants to them by 10 per cent, following an assurance that the decision would not be implemented.

The Education Minister, Ghanshyam Tiwari, assured a delegation of private institutions' action committee that the grants released to various aided schools and colleges would not be reduced. He expressed concern over financial difficulties faced by these institutions.

Mr. Tiwari -- while pointing out that his repeated requests to the Finance Department to increase the grants had been rejected in view of austerity measures -- said he would move a formal proposal in the Budget session to bring about a significant increase in the grants to educational institutions.

The delegation, led by the president of Swayamsevi Shikshan Sanstha Sangh, Satyavrat Samvedi, stated that 10 per cent reduction in addition to a number of undeclared cuts in the grants would ruin the institutions and force their closure in the next academic session.

"The aided private colleges are paying Rs. 4 crores annually as salary to the teachers and other employees who have been rendered surplus in the past few years,'' Mr. Samvedi said.

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