Demand for CAG enquiry into schools run by Delhi Sikh board

January 11, 2011 07:33 pm | Updated 07:33 pm IST - NEW DELHI:

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India should institute enquiries into all the schools comprising the chain of Guru Harkrishan Public Schools which are run by Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, Shiromani Akali Dal Delhi unit president Manjit Singh said here on Tuesday.

The CAG has announced its decision to probe the accounts of three GHPS schools due to their failure to pay teachers and staff salaries as per the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.

“The condition of these schools is not hidden from anyone. The CAG should probe the affairs of each of these schools since the last eight years and should also investigate all appointments made in this period as well as the allotment of funds,” said Mr. Singh at a press conference.

A host of allegations were levelled regarding the management of the schools. “Large-scale appointment of teachers is going on and in many cases the appointed teachers do not even have the necessary qualifications. Moreover, vacancies for teachers’ posts were mostly not advertised in newspapers. The school bookshops are selling book sets at double the normal price which students are forced to buy and the books of private publishers are being taught instead of NCERT texts,” Mr. Singh said, adding that money had been diverted from the school funds for gold installations in Gurdwara Bangla Sahib.

The Punjabi Bagh branch of GHPS was cited to illustrate the deteriorating affairs of the chain. “In 2010, 368 students of the school appeared for their Class XII Board examinations of which 101 failed and 84 received compartments. This school falls in the constituency of DSGMC president Paramjit Singh Sarna,” Mr. Singh said.

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