Relax rules, says schools association to government
Posted on: 24/Jun/2013 10:38:18 AM
On receiving information about the shutting down of around 900 schools in the State, Tamil Nadu Nursery and Primary Schools Association and Tamil Nadu Matriculation Schools Association President Kalai Vijaykumar has urged the government to extend validity of the recognition from three to five years. He also asked them to relax rules.
‘Most primary and nursery schools run in rental buildings whose owners are rarely willing to provide lease agreements for a period of seven or ten years as required by the government… Another major problem facing around 1,700 schools was rules on minimum land area. Government regulations specify that a school should have a minimum area of at least six grounds while one in a municipality should at least have an area of 10 grounds…. How (can) a school located in a corporation get enough land in expensive and congested areas? It (the rule) should be applied only to newly built schools. (There should be) streamlining the process of issuing fitness certificates (FC) for schools to maintain their own buses. Current procedures adopted by Regional Transport Offices (RTO), which issue certificates only for a few hours in a week, made schools dependent on rented vehicles’, said Mr. Vijayakumar.
