Telangana Parents Association president Nagati Narayana has demanded that the State Government enact a comprehensive legislation to regulate fee in private schools and also ensure strict enforcement of the provision of 25% seats in private schools to underprivileged children as per the Right To Education Act. At a seminar here on Tuesday, Mr. Narayana alleged that majority of the private schools had increased fee multi-fold in the range of 30% to 60% in the past three years, posing huge financial burden on parents.
The errant private and corporate schools have been minting money by taking advantage of the utter neglect of the State-run schools by the government, he charged, alleging that influential private school managements were dictating terms to the persons at the helm of affairs.
The TRS Government has miserably failed to deliver its major promise of providing free KG to PG education even three years after formation of Telangana, he alleged, demanding that the Government bring in a legislation to end the ‘unabated exploitation’ of parents by the errant private schools.
He further demanded that the teachers and other staff working in private schools be paid minimum wages and provided with statutory social security benefits.
A broad-based mass movement involving parents, student unions, and other stakeholders is the need of the hour to ensure strengthening of government schools, provision of quality education to children from disadvantaged sections, he opined.
Leaders of CPI, CPI (M) and CPI (ML-New Democracy) besides representatives of SFI, AISF and PDSU, among others spoke.
