Staff Reporter
Collector Deepak Saxena, while presiding over an important meeting with representatives of private schools at Collectorate on Wednesday afternoon, made it clear that if action has been taken from Jabalpur against the arbitrariness and dictatorship of private schools, the problems should also be corrected. system failures. made from Jabalpur itself. According to collector Saxena, it will send a good message among the public and the bad perception created among parents, children and society about private schools will disappear. Collector Saxena said school principals will have to introspect on the environment created against private schools and will have to make efforts to rectify it. If the private school managements take this decision and implement it, then a good message about Jabalpur will be sent across the state and even the country.
The Collector clarified that the administration has no prejudices or ill intentions against private schools. The district administration had ample opportunity to correct errors discovered during the investigation of parents’ complaints. The collector clarified that if the school management is willing to correct the errors with good intentions, the administration will cooperate with them. The Collector also asked principals of private schools to follow the Act relating to private school fees. He also assured to organize training for school managements to overcome the difficulties they face in uploading details about the fee structure on the portal. Speaking on the issue of fake ISBN numbers in textbooks, Collector Saxena said that it is not mandatory for private schools to implement books with ISBN numbers in the curriculum.
Schools can also include books without ISBN numbers in the curriculum. But including books with fake or duplicate ISBN numbers in the curriculum will be considered a crime. He said that before including any book in the curriculum, school administrators must carefully observe its content and features. At the same time, you also have to take into account its price and availability. Details about the books to be sold in the next academic session should be posted on the notice board in September. The Collector asked school principals to overcome the mentality of making a lot of money by recovering arbitrary fees from parents. If children receive a good education at your institution, your reputation will automatically increase.
