Schools told to remove fancy titles

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad district administration has issued notices to over 150 private schools for adding fancy taglines to the schools’ names. Despite stringent warnings by the district education department, schools continue to flaunt fancy tags such as ‘International’, ‘Smart’, ‘Techno’, ‘Global’ or ‘Olympiad’.

Some schools that brought in the concept of fancy taglines, do not even provide basic infrastructure mandatory for a school. According to the RTE Act, the name of the school should be indicative only of the class up to which education is offered. These tags can be misleading,” said Hyderabad district collector Mukesh Kumar Meena.