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Reforms soon in school education

Special Correspondent

A high-level panel being constituted will study various aspects and make recommendations

HYDERABAD: The State Government has decided to take up reforms in school education that have been long overdue.

In an informal chat with reporters here on Monday, Secretary of School Education P. Krishnaiah said a high-level committee was being constituted for the purpose with the Director of School Education as Chairman.

The members would include Project Director of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Director of State Council of Educational Research and Training, educationists and experts.

The committee would undertake a comprehensive study of various aspects of school education before making recommendations. Its terms of reference would include flouting of the rule by private schools to submit audited accounts to the Government, which helped the managements commit irregularities in payment of salaries to staff.

On playgrounds

The panel would also examine the position on playgrounds for schools, which were difficult to be developed in the urban areas due to constraints on land.

Mr. Krishnaiah said recruitment of untrained teachers by private schools was another issue that the committee would study.

A strategy implementation wing would be opened in the Directorate of School Education to coordinate the reforms process, he said, adding that a Government Order would be issued shortly to set the entire exercise in motion. He said the reforms would mark policy changes in school education for the first time since 1994.

Complaints

Mr. Krishnaiah added that it was decided to appoint two senior officials to probe complaints that an official inspection of private education colleges this year was fraudulent.

An Additional Director of School Education and a Vice-Chairman of State Council of Higher Education would be put on the job. They would videograph the existing infrastructure at the colleges to verify the reports of inspection.

The latest counter inspection by the two-member team was being taken up in view of complaints that officials had submitted false reports about infrastructure in 50 colleges of the State.

They were alleged to have recorded as true non-existing buildings after collecting bribes.

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