SRINAGAR : Green Valley Educational Institute schools in Srinagar city has allegedly resorted to loot parents seeking placement for their wards in LKG, UKG.
Aggrieved parents told News Agency Press Trust of Kashmir that, management of Green Valley Educational Institute are charging hefty amounts in the name of annual fee in categories like application, admission, tuition, and luring guardians with “impressive” announcements.
“In addition, they set up business centres adjacent to schools selling note/textbooks, stationery and uniforms”, they added.
They said parents including ones from lower middle class backgrounds are forced to secure loans, even if it means purchasing education which is increasingly getting ‘corporatised’.
“The amounts collected as fee/donations vary in schools, which are located in lanes or branded as corporate, techno, concept, national and international, which are merely added with sole motive of doubling fee”, they further alleged.
They said, “If the prescribed amounts are not paid on time children can’t escape punishment and are getting slighted in classes. Even parents can’t escape embarrassment when schools deny issuance of progress reports if payment of fee is delayed”.
They asked, one would assume that such hefty amounts collected by the schools would translate to better infrastructure and faculty. “But, that is not the case. Despite collecting huge fee, schools don’t show interest in appointing qualified teachers”, they alleged.
“The schools are usually crammed with inadequate ventilation, fans, latrines, fire safety, unfit busses with inexperienced drivers,” complain a few parents while speaking to News Agency Press Trust of Kashmir. Parents said “The only motive of such schools is making money”, they said..
When contact management of Green Valley Educational Institute, they didn’t respond calls of PTK. (PTK)
