Sisodia asks LG Baijal to post 12 DANICS officers to education dept
NEW DELHI: In order to keep the keep the deputy director of education (DDES) free to focus on government schools, the Delhi government has asked the lieutenant governor Anil Baijal to post 12 DANICS officials to the education department to manage the recently constituted fee anomaly committee.
Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said the government has received numerous complaints from parents t hat private schools have excessively hiked their fees on the pretext of implementing the 7th central pay commission.
Sisodia said the committees have to be formed for each district and to be chaired by the DDE of that district. The committee will also have an education officer or deputy education officer and a charted accountant.
“There are more than 1,500 unaided schools under the purview of the DOE (Directorate of Education). This would mean that there are likely to be hundreds of complaints that come to the committee of each district,” Sisodia, who is also the education minister, said.
He said going through accounts of private schools is a time intensive job and most of the time of the officers will go into examining the accounts.
“If our current DDES are put in this role, the government schools will suffer grievous damage. It is only when they make regular visits to schools do reforms actually get implemented,” he said, adding that if DDES withdraw their attention from schools then there can be a fall in results of Class 10 and 12. The minister said that since services come under the L-G, he requests Baijal to immediately post 12 DANICS (Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Services) officials to the DOE.
“These officers would be primarily assigned to look after the work of private school branch considering the volume of work emerging at the district level and shall hold responsibility of all matters related to recognised unaided schools,” he said.