It is not only schools but also other educational institutions that are violating the laws and the government has to step in to protect the students, former Tribal Welfare Minister P Balaraju said.
The government taking up a campaign against the schools after they have reopened gives rise to doubts about the intentions, he told The Hindu here on Thursday. “It appears that it is being taken up to favour the few institutions run by persons close to the powers that be and not the poor students and their parents,” he said. There is a need for maintaining transparency in the process and everyone should know what action has been taken against errant educational institutions.
What has stopped the district administration from taking action against these institutions before they closed for summer vacation and or before they reopened, he asked. These institutions did not appear overnight and the claims that the schools were locked and the management was not available sounds incredulous, the former Minister said. He doubted the sincerity of the Education Department and its officials in not making public the list of all errant institutions.
The administration should take action against all errant educational institutions in the district and not just the few in the city. The mandal-level officials should also inspect the schools in the villages and take action against them.
The Education Department should also take action against the engineering colleges that are running without proper faculty or infrastructure, he said.
