Playgrounds were mandatory for private schools as part of the rules for obtaining affiliation
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Hyderabad: Playgrounds within the campus could soon be a must for schools. The Telangana State Education Ministry has come up with this proposal after noticing that more than half of the private schools in the city are running without playground and many of them functioned from within a single building in residential localities.
There are more than 3,000 private schools in the Hyderabad metropolitan conglomerate and over half of these schools don’t have playgrounds. Playgrounds were mandatory for private schools as part of the rules for obtaining affiliation.
But certain schools were allowed exemptions, and they were allowed to have playgrounds outside the campus, within one kilometre radius of the school campus. However, after grant of affiliations, officials have found that, in some cases, the land showed for playgrounds were based on forged documents. Some such land even had buildings coming up.
“Often, these so-called playgrounds were rented, or would not actually exist, or there would be some construction on it,” officials in the Education Ministry said. The government now wants to implement the rule strictly, mandating that private schools have a playground within their campus itself. Government officials from the affiliating SSC board will also physically inspect the playgrounds to ascertain whether the schools have actually made provision for the playground.
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