After “Waiving off” fee for girl students, govt. forgets to provide financial assistance to schools for “classroom” requirements.
Baramulla : One year after announcing “waiving off”, the fee for girl students in government run schools, the government has allegedly forgotten to provide special grants to the schools to meet out the class room expenses like chalks, boards, markers etc. Scores of Head of the institutions in North Kashmir told vov that the rural schools are badly hit owing to the class room requirments as there were no special grants that could be used as an alternate to the funds that were being pooled earlier by the fee of the students. They said the government in October last year had issued an order vide No. 450-Edu of 2016 dates 21-11-2016 announcing “waiving off” the fee for girl students in all government run Schools up-to the level of Higher Secondary Schools. Sources said that though the authorities had then assured financial assistance to the schools but nothing was actually done in the regard, leaving most of the schools in rural areas in financial crunch as far as the class room requirements was concerned.
Many heads of these schools including Higher Secondary Schools told vov that their schools were facing severe financial crunch as a consequence of which they are not able to cope up with the daily classroom requirement expenses. Though Secretary Education Farooq Ahmad Shah could not be reached for his comments, a senior functionary in the School Education Department told Kashmir Clarion that a special grant of five thousand rupees is being given to every school to meet out the requirements of chalk and other such things.
