Patna, Nov. 5: Private schools across the state would remain closed on November 11 and 12 to protest against the state government’s diktat to get registered.
Under the Right to Education Act (RTE), registration of private schools with the government is a must and would enable the state government to regulate and monitor the functioning of private schools on whether or not schools maintain adequate teacher-student ratio, whether it has a playground or not and whether it fulfils all requisite infrastructural facilities or not among other factors.
“We condemn the state government’s decision for forcing us (private schools) to get registered with the authorities concerned, as it would amount to interference with the school’s administration and hence, around 25,000 schools would remain closed on November 11 and 12 to protest against the decision,” the association president, Syed Shamael Ahmad, told journalists.
The association has decided that all the persons who run the school would wear a black badge to protest against the registration while the school administrators would observe a fast the next day in their own schools on November 10, Ahmad said, adding that they would also take out a candlelight march from SK Memorial Hall to Kargil Chowk the same day.