The managements of all private educational institutions from KG to PG, who have formed into a Joint Action Committee (JAC), have raised their voice against the State government’s move of imposing restrictions on the private educational institutions.
The Telangana recognised educational institutions, that have formed into KG to PG JAC of Educational Institutions, organised ‘Atmagaurava Sabha’ in the town on Thursday. All the private educational institutions – schools, junior, degree and PG colleges – participated in the programme.
Traffic snarls
The teaching and non-teaching staff working in private educational institutions in the erstwhile Karimnagar district and other districts swarmed into the town in school buses. The arrival of hundreds of school buses created chaos in the town owing to traffic snarls that followed.
Telangana Private Junior College Managements’ Association State president V. Narender Reddy, Telangana Recognised School Managements’ Association State president Srinivas Reddy, TRSMA general secretary Y. Shekhar Rao, correspondents of various educational institutions E. Prasada Rao (Paramita Educational Institutions), S. Komuraiah (Vivekananda Vidyanikethan Institutions), K. Anantha Reddy (Manair), D. Sripal Reddy (Siddartha) and others participated in the public meeting.
Speaking on the occasion, they found fault with the State government for imposing restrictions that amounted to ‘harassment’ of managements of private educational institutions in the State on various issues.
Job opportunities
Clarifying that only some corporate educational institutions were fleecing parents by charging exorbitant fee, they said they had set up schools only to eke out a living as they themselves were unemployed, to provide quality education with a low fee structure to children of both rural and urban areas and create employment opportunities for unemployed teachers across the State.
Quality education
Recollecting that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had promised to provide KG to PG education to all sections in one educational institution during the statehood movement, they said the government was now creating rift among people by opening separate schools and colleges for SC\ST\BC and minorities. They claimed only the private educational institutions were propagating the values of unity and secularism by providing quality education to all sections of the society.
They also found fault with the government for not inviting them for any talks to redress their grievances. Neither the Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister, Kadiam Srihari, nor the Education Department officials were representing the problems of private educational institutions to the Chief Minister, they complained.
Health cards
They demanded the government to fulfil its promise of providing health cards and double bedroom houses to all private school teachers, prompt release of scholarships and fee reimbursement and aided status to schools.