Grant-in-aid bodies get 5 days to apply for setting up, operating Gyan Setu schools
The associations also demanded that instead of accommodating 2,000 students in each school, four schools should have a capacity to teach 500 students each; separate schools for boys and girls should come up under the Gyan Shakti residential schools and Gyan Setu day schools be run in government schools and if required, grant-in-aid organisations be roped in.
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The committee members on Tuesday met Education Minister Kuber Dindor, MoS Education Praful Pansheriya, Secretary (Education) Vinod Rao and senior department officials. (Representational/File) In a meeting with the state government on Tuesday, school associations were assured that Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel would look into the long-pending demands of teachers and resolve them for the “benefit of all” and that a five-day extension will be given to grant-in-aid organisations to apply for setting up and operating Gyan Setu schools under the public private partnership (PPP) model.
With various associations of teachers, principals and school managements protesting against Gujarat government’s Gyan Setu day schools, Gyan Shakti residential schools, Gyan Shakti tribal residential schools and Raksha Shakti residential schools, a review committee – that included members of protesting associations and senior education officials – was constituted by the state government on April 10.
The committee members on Tuesday met Education Minister Kuber Dindor, MoS Education Praful Pansheriya, Secretary (Education) Vinod Rao and senior department officials. “The CM has agreed to meet the representatives tomorrow or day after to discuss all these issues. Only those decisions
that will be benefit all will be taken,” Dindor told The Indian Express.
On making a special case for grant-in-aid organisations, he said this would invite more competition. “They said that they were not aware of the scheme. So, though deadline to receive applications for Gyan Setu day schools is over, we have allowed them to apply till Monday (April 24),” he added.
The associations also demanded that instead of accommodating 2,000 students in each school, four schools should have a capacity to teach 500 students each; separate schools for boys and girls should come up under the Gyan Shakti residential schools and Gyan Setu day schools be run in government schools and if required, grant-in-aid organisations be roped in.
They also demanded parity in these PPP schools, regular appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff and limited number of students, among others.
Dindor said, “It was clarified to the associations that government schools will not be closed down and no teacher would be declared surplus. Also, pending salaries and appointments among other issues were discussed.”
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