Though accommodation for teaching is the basic criteria for registration of a private school and as such also for it’s affiliation with the J&K Board of School Education (J&K BOSE) but unfortunately the school education department grants recognition to non missionary private schools run from rented accommodations and most of such schools are shifted from one district to the other after attaining financial stability only to cause huge convenience to the parents of enrolled students and exploiting the house owners of the hired school buildings as well. Very recently Vision Public School Humhama was unsealed by the proprietor himself a day after it was sealed by the school education department which by all standards of understandabilities is a brazen violation of the law enforcement and subsequently generates a perception among the people that schools proprietors tend to be law enforcers unto themselves. As per the standing rules FIR should have been filed against the proprietor of the said Vision Public School Humhama for unsealing the official seal of the district administration Budgam but irrefutable fact is that even a simple explanation was not sought from the said school proprietor by district administration Budgam for taking law into his own hands by unsealing the government seal on the school gates without taking the consent of the concerned authorities. Ironically allegations are galore that school proprietor does not even pay the rent to the house owner and shockingly he also runs the school from a building declared unsafe by R&B (Public Works) department even after receiving orders of closure from the school education department.
The arrogance of private school proprietors has by all standards of understandabilities crossed all limits as they violate even the orders of Fee Fixation & Regulation Committee (FFRC) a statutory body of the J&K Government headed by a retired high court judge by overcharging annual fee from the enrolled students time and again. The writ of both the school education department and as well as J&K Board of School Education (JK BOSE) besides those of law enforcing authorities has come into question due to increasing high handedness and arrogance of the private school proprietors as the rules for registration of the schools and their affiliation with J&K BOSE are not strictly pursued.
While the Vision Public School Humhama is run from an unsafe building for which the proprietor does even pay the rent to the house owner, the schools like Foundation School Humhama and New Convent School Tulsibag Srinagar are being simultaneously run from two different locations in Srinagar and Budgam districts. The parents admit their wards in schools keeping in view their physical convenience to the location of the schools but years later they find themselves physically tortured on being asked to send their wards for schooling in higher classes to the adjoining district which is not physically convenient for their wards. So the school proprietors by all standards of understandabilities simultaneously exploit both the house owners of the buildings from where they launch the school and as wells as the parents who are asked to send their wards for schooling in higher classes to the adjoining districts. So by all standards of understandabilities the extortion of both the parents and also the owners of the school buildings by school proprietors goes unnoticed even in the summer capital Srinagar. Never forget that while parents have to pay more bus fee for the new locations of the schools and their more time gets consumed in traveling to the new school locations in the adjoining districts, the house owners of the old schools buildings don’t get even the rent for the periods schools are run from their buildings. The arrogance of private school proprietors has by all standards of understandabilities crossed all limits as they violate even the orders of Fee Fixation & Regulation Committee (FFRC) a statutory body of the J&K Government headed by a retired high court judge by overcharging annual fee from the enrolled students time and again. The writ of both the school education department and as well as J&K Board of School Education (JK BOSE) besides those of law enforcing authorities has come into question due to increasing high handedness and arrogance of the private school proprietors as the rules for registration of the schools and their affiliation with J&K BOSE are not strictly pursued.
