Ramakrishna Coaching and Training Centre, a private tuition institute that has been providing academic support to students from poor families in Kalimpong, has sought information on some crucial issues related to the educational sector in the Darjeeling hills via the Right to Information procedure.
The Centre today sent a letter to the State Information Commissioner through the district magistrate seeking information on eight subjects, which apparently, are influencing the educational sector here.
Some of the queries it has made include: can a teacher who is a permanent state government employee give private tuitions? If not, what are the punishments that can be awarded to such law breakers? Can government teachers actively participate in political and social organisations? If yes, what are the terms and conditions? Can school administrations run coaching classes in the school? What are the government policies to regulate monopoly fee structures in private tuitions?
Centre director Sisir Kumar Sharma said the RTI has been filed to collect information and assess the educational downturn taking place in the hills on the pretext of quality education. He said the other issues raised in the RTI include questions about differences in fees charged by government and government-aided schools and differences of rules followed in government, private and missionary schools and so on.
Explaining the reason for filing the RTI, Sharma said, “We do not intend to oppose the tuition-culture as doing so would hit the income source of private tutors. Instead, we want to open up sources of income for educated but unemployed youths.”
Sharma said although government teachers receive salaries each month, they are providing tuitions outside school and doing so is infringement of government regulations. He said that if the government acts seriously on these matters, the educated unemployed section will be able to earn a living by providing private tuitions.
Source:EOI
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| Ramakrishna Coaching Centre sought information on some crucial issues related to the educational sector in the Darjeeling hills |
Some of the queries it has made include: can a teacher who is a permanent state government employee give private tuitions? If not, what are the punishments that can be awarded to such law breakers? Can government teachers actively participate in political and social organisations? If yes, what are the terms and conditions? Can school administrations run coaching classes in the school? What are the government policies to regulate monopoly fee structures in private tuitions?
Centre director Sisir Kumar Sharma said the RTI has been filed to collect information and assess the educational downturn taking place in the hills on the pretext of quality education. He said the other issues raised in the RTI include questions about differences in fees charged by government and government-aided schools and differences of rules followed in government, private and missionary schools and so on.
Explaining the reason for filing the RTI, Sharma said, “We do not intend to oppose the tuition-culture as doing so would hit the income source of private tutors. Instead, we want to open up sources of income for educated but unemployed youths.”
Sharma said although government teachers receive salaries each month, they are providing tuitions outside school and doing so is infringement of government regulations. He said that if the government acts seriously on these matters, the educated unemployed section will be able to earn a living by providing private tuitions.
Source:EOI
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