Taking a note of the emerging trend of educational institutions being sent for trial on the basis of presumptions or slight procedural oversight in grant of approval, a CBI court has said it will be unwise to look at every private educational institute with suspicion; it will be bad for the education system of the country.
The court said it would be wise to have clear guidelines and few formalities to give approval to institutes. The CBI court presided over by Special CBI Judge Swarna Kanta Sharma pointed out that institutions educating masses in remote areas would be dissuaded from doing their job if small technicalities and procedural errors in grant of approval, which can be termed as procedural oversight, are termed as corrupt practices.
Also considering the extensive documentation work and red-tapism in the education and administrative system, the court said: “Let us do away with the perception of an Indian education or administrative system where red-tapism commonly known as “sarkari kaam” or “sarkari way” of working makes people fearful of either applying for new institutes or filing up unnecessary documents or look for corrupt means for fear of rejection.”
The court said there is a need to chalk out simple fool-proof guidelines and give powers with safeguards to higher officials to enable them to take far reaching decisions without fear or favour.
“Red-tapism, too much of documentation, duplicity of documents, no clear guidelines and the attitude of looking with suspicion at every highly placed officer and approval granted to run the course is bad for the education system of the country,” ASJ Sharma said.
