Srinagar, Jan 05 (KNS): Parents of private school students have appealed the Minister for education and Director DSEK, that private schools administration are compelling them to purchase books and uniform from schools.
They said that minister and other officials are claiming that education system has been streamlined in Kashmir, but the private schools continue to take the people for ride.
A group of parents complained to KNS that the private schools in league with some of the booksellers are looting them under the garb of getting books for their wards.
"My kid is studying in the Under Kindergarten (UKG) in a private school. I got a shocker few days back when the authorities of school asked me to get books for my child from a designated bookshop.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelI was baffled when the owner of the bookshop asked me to pay Rs. 4,000 as cost of a few books which I had purchased," Hilal Ahmad a parent said.
Hilal said that, the books would not cost him more than Rs. 1,000 if he had purchased him from the open market at standard price from a bookshop other than the designated one. He alleged that the designated bookshops offer the books for the children at 'exorbitant' rates under a 'clandestine' agreement reached out with the authorities of the private schools. (KNS)