HYDERABAD: Seeing the revised by-laws of CBSE as an opportunity to bring to fore the profiteering being done by city private schools, Hyderabad Schools Parents Association (HSPA) has decided to send proofs of such violation to the Board. This, the association said would be a test of the Board’s intent to back its won regulations.
The recently-released revamps affiliation guidelines have not only once again reiterated the non-profit nature of educational institutions, but have also placed several other by-laws to act as a further restraint on commercialisation and profiteering.
Separate accounts for each society/ Trust and School, control of governing trust should not be with a family or an individual, school income cannot be diverted to any other body not even to a different branch of the same school.
“Many people have registered education societies mostly with their own families which allows them to by-pass these rules. HSPA has also exposed schools which take 20 per cent of the fees collected as “franchise fees. We also found schools were crores of rupees is being paid to the education society members as salary,” read a statement issued by HSPA.
Parents have also lauded the newly inducted penalty for violation of these norms according to which it can levy various penalties ranging from a fine of `5 lakh to, restricting the number of sections in the school, to a temporary suspension of affiliation to the total disaffiliation of a school.