Bengaluru: Following the recommendations made by the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) to withdraw No Objection Certificate (NOC) to a group of institutions in the city, the Karnataka Associated Managements of Primary and Secondary Schools (KAMS) has approached higher authorities questioning the powers of the Commission.
In a written complaint addressed to Chief Secretary Ratna Prabha on Friday, the association alleged KSCPCR of “passing orders causing confusion and bad impression on all education institutions” in the state.
KAMS also added that the Commission has intervened in the textbook issue which pertains only to parents and the school management, and no child was involved in the matter. Questioning the recent directions of the KSCPCR ‘directing’ the Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) concerned to withdraw NOC given to three schools run by the Baldwin Methodist Education Society, KAMS general secretary D. Shashi Kumar said,” We wonder whether there is any provision enabling the Commission to do so. Isn’t the KSCPCR violating its own mandate by throwing thousands of students out to the streets by directing this action?”
Reacting on the issue, DDPI (Bengaluru South) Ashwath Narayan Gowda said that a report on the same has been submitted to the Commissioner for Public Instruction and to the state government.
“Further directions will be taken accordingly once the government issues orders on the same, after vacating the High Court (HC) stay, if needed,” he said. The Karnataka HC has stayed the KSCPCR order with the case adjourned to July 4.
