This year too, administration will act tough on school management regarding execution of CBSE standard norms regarding books, copies and weight of school bags.After protest growing shriller against schools, divisional commissioner Kalpana Shrivastava has constituted a 10 -member committee to ensure that the schools follow norms of CBSE regarding text books, copies, school bags, uniforms and other material.
The committee will inspect schools from April 15 and submit a report by April 20. The team has been constituted with coordination of directorate of public instruction (DPI) joint director. The body includes deputy director Kuldeep Singh Yadav, TK Saxena, Sudhir Khandekar, DEO DK Sharma, district project coordinator Prabhakar Shrivastava, assistant director women and child welfare TS Raghvendra, principal Sudhakar Parasar, Sankul principal Sandhya Nambudri.
The parents have been raising the their voice against the diktats of school management of various school regarding books, copies and increasing weight of school bags. The issue was brought in knowledge of administration that schools have fixed shops to sell the books and copies to the chagrin and harassment of parents.
It has been noticed that in addition of NCERT books, certain books of private publishers are introduced in the schools in the name of reference book, work-book, practice book, General Knowledge (GK) and grammar. Students are given book list with announcement of results and they are told to purchase, dictionary, grammar, and atlas. This practice not only increases weight of school bags but also increase cost of the books as shop keepers sell them at inflated prices as the extra books are printed in glaze pages so its cost increases by many fold.
