CHENNAI: A writ plea has been made in the Madras High Court for a direction to the State government to abolish the practice of the private schools using the words Matriculation, Oriental and Anglo-Indian, either as suffixes or prefixes in the name boards and in all means of visible communications.
When the PIL from V Venkatesan, president of Parents Union for Students Educational Rights (PUSER) came up for hearing before the Vacation Bench of Justices Aruna Jagadeesan and S Vaidyanathan on Wednesday, Additional Government Pleader P Sanjai Gandhi took notice for the Education Department.
Petitioner submitted that the government, by an order dated March 4, 2010 notified the State Common Board of School Education under Section 5 of the TN Uniform School Education Act, 2010. The objective was to abolish different streams and syllabi and to reach the common system of education by removing the disparities and to achieve uniformity in education by all means. After the implementation of the uniform system by establishing the Uniform School Education Board, the earlier boards such as Matriculation, Oriental and Anglo-Indian were ceased of their existence. Hence, for the effective implementation of uniformity in education, the practice of using different nomenclatures in the names of the private schools by representing the abolished boards should be curtailed, petitioner contended.
In this connection, petitioner sent representations to the government in June last year and on May 9 this year.
As there was no response, he filed the present Public Interest Litigation.