The Odisha Parent Associations’ Forum held a rally and demonstration in the Lower PMG here on Wednesday demanding the State Government’s control over the private English medium schools that are fleecing the students in the name of quality education.
The forum alleged that while the standards of State Government and Government aided schools have fallen, conscious parents are admitting their students in private English medium schools with the hope of quality education. But their hopes are belied as the English medium schools are imposing hefty fees by way of hiking them arbitrarily without concentrating on quality education.
The agitators said that other States like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tripura, Karnataka and Kerala etc have implemented laws to regulate these schools, but so far, in Odisha these schools are going rudderless. They demanded immediate intervention of the Government and steps to regulate these schools.
While Dr Gagan Bihari Rout presided, among others, Sanjukta Panigrahi spoke.
