Vadodara: Parent bodies have started demanding action against private schools that fail to adopt the directives of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).
The Vadodara Parents Association (VPA) on Monday said that private schools are not following the directives of NCPCR to follow the curriculum and textbooks prescribed by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) and the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT).
NCPCR is an autonomous body on child rights under the Ministry of Education, Government of India. It has written to all states asking them to ensure that schools follow the curriculum and textbooks prescribed only by the NCERT and the SCERT. Each state has an SCERT, established on the lines of NCERT, which functions as an apex body in the academic matters of the state.
While issuing the directives to all principal secretaries / secretaries of school education, NCPCR has asked the states to reduce the cost of education at private schools by ensuring that they are prescribing books by NCERT/ SCERT at the elementary level.
“The NCPCR chairperson has even stated that the repeated recurrence of schools prescribing books published by private publishers is a clear disregard for children’s right to quality education and the RTE Act, 2009,” VPA office-bearers said.
“In fact, the directives clearly mention that actions can also be taken under provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 if the directives are not followed,” the parents body said.
VPA which submitted a memorandum addressed to the chief secretary has demanded that the government put up NCPCR’s orders on all its websites, schools be asked to share the orders with the parents and display them on notice board.
The Vadodara Parents Association (VPA) on Monday said that private schools are not following the directives of NCPCR to follow the curriculum and textbooks prescribed by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) and the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT).
NCPCR is an autonomous body on child rights under the Ministry of Education, Government of India. It has written to all states asking them to ensure that schools follow the curriculum and textbooks prescribed only by the NCERT and the SCERT. Each state has an SCERT, established on the lines of NCERT, which functions as an apex body in the academic matters of the state.
While issuing the directives to all principal secretaries / secretaries of school education, NCPCR has asked the states to reduce the cost of education at private schools by ensuring that they are prescribing books by NCERT/ SCERT at the elementary level.
“The NCPCR chairperson has even stated that the repeated recurrence of schools prescribing books published by private publishers is a clear disregard for children’s right to quality education and the RTE Act, 2009,” VPA office-bearers said.
“In fact, the directives clearly mention that actions can also be taken under provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 if the directives are not followed,” the parents body said.
VPA which submitted a memorandum addressed to the chief secretary has demanded that the government put up NCPCR’s orders on all its websites, schools be asked to share the orders with the parents and display them on notice board.
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