The Hindu : Kerala / Kozhikode News : Private schools plan agitation

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Private schools plan agitation

Staff Reporter

Move to delegate powers to local bodies

Managers say steps will destroy
aided schools
Want ban order on salary payment removed

KOZHIKODE: The Kerala Private (Aided) School Managers Association has said that it would oppose the move by the authorities concerned to depute responsibility to local self-Government bodies in the management of schools in the guise of modernising education.

The association alleged that the steps being taken would in effect destroy the aided schools that maintained good standards, and appealed to the authorities not to go ahead with the move.

The managers wanted the ban order on salary payment removed, and teachers be paid their due emoluments.

The association demanded that the Government desist from the move as stated in the Assembly to accord sanction to new unaided schools in Malabar which would jeopardise the public education system.

It wanted the Government to sanction new Plus Two batches in schools that had the facilities and not only in institutions that were taken over by the panchayats.

The other demands include uplifting the educational standards by insisting on a teacher-student ratio of 1: 30, increase in the maintenance grant that was fixed 49 years back, withdrawal of order to close down uneconomic school.

The association will take out a march, and hold a dharna in front of the residence of the Education Minister in the second week of September.

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