Will ply school vehicles for next two weeks only: Kashmir Private Schools

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Srinagar, Mar 5: In the wake of the deadlock over the school students’ transportation issues between the government and private schools, the Private Schools Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) on Friday, while addressing a press conference, said that private schools would ply their school vehicles only for the next two weeks.

The Association said that ‘in the interest of society, it is amending the previous order of not plying its school buses and other vehicles.’

“Last time we had decided to keep our transport off the roads. After that we got numerous requests from parents and the government too jumped in to discuss the issue with us. From the government side we got assurances and promises which are yet to be implemented on ground,” said G N Var president PSAJK. “To give more time to parents to make their own arrangements and government to implement its promised orders, we have decided to ply our vehicles for the next two weeks.”

The Association said that ‘the main work of the private schools is to provide quality education to children and providing transport services is not a necessary domain of an educational institute.’

“The transportation service has become a white elephant for us. It not only impedes our working but has also become a financial burden on us. In the absence of collection of transportation charges from the parents of the students since August 2019, schools in no way can afford to ply their buses,” he said.

“In such a scenario we have asked the government take over all of our buses and other vehicles. The government has a full-fledged transport department and hundreds of vehicles. They can easily arrange transport for the children,” said Var. “They can charge minimally or whatever they like and provide quality transport for us. For government school children they spend billions let them provide a paid service to private school children.”

“In the era of COVID pandemic the transportation fee is set to increase due to SOPs which we tend to implement strictly.”

The Association said that such is the situation that over 250 private schools are on the verge of closure due to financial burden arising out of non-collection of fee and transportation charges.

“We provide employment to 70000 persons and education to over 7 lakh students. Just imagine if the private school sector collapses what will happen to our society,” said Var. “Our only source of income is fee from students.”

“The problem is that we have multiple authorities to govern us and it often leads to contradictory orders. Be it fee committee, district administration, divisional administration, director school education etc. It would make our life easier if all are on same page,” said Var.

There is chaos in the administration regarding Affiliation, Registration and Upgradation of schools. After the formation of UT, there were number of good central guidelines regarding education sector meant for implementation here, but those files are pending in GAD and we don’t know what has happened to them. Can anybody tell us when are those guidelines being implemented here?

Raeshwar Manhas, Private Schools Coordination Committee, Jammu President also participated in the press conference virtually to express their support on transport and other issues. He said that the private schools in Jammu are also on the same page on this issue with their Kashmiri counterparts.

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