Hyderabad: Inquiring with the state government how it accorded permission to private schools, which were not following the provisions of the Right To Education Act, the Telangana High Court on Monday issued notices to a slew of officials and sought a counter in four weeks.
The notices were issued to principal secretary of school education, commissioner and director of school education, the collectors and district education officers of Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts.
The division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Shameem Akhter was dealing with a petition by Mr Vijay Gopal, president of an NGO, Forum Against Corruption, who contended that the state government was no more concerned about implementing the RTE which has been in force since 2010.
He said the state government was following the provisions issued by the state in 1994 in giving recognition to private schools, instead of following the compulsory provisions of RTE Act, 2009. Rule 14(4) (f) mandated that every school should furnish its accounts to the DEO office, which the private schools had ignored.
Ms B. Rachna Reddy, counsel for the petitioner, said that due to the negligence of officials in implementing the Act, the private schools which had mushroomed in the state were reso-rting to fleecing the parents by charging exorbitant fees.
