Schools fail to attract uniform suppliers,dept says find them

This is in sharp contrast to the earlier practice,when the department bought uniforms in bulk and distributed them to the schools.

Despite government schools having twice failed to attract suppliers for school uniforms,the UT education department continues to entrust them with the task after directing them to re-float the tenders for a third time.

This is in sharp contrast to the earlier practice,when the department bought uniforms in bulk and distributed them to the schools. The previous tenders failed to find takers due to low prices for the uniforms. It is learnt that schools have telephonically been asked to re-float the tenders once again.

Though no circular has been issued for inviting the suppliers for uniform for the third time,we got telephonic instructions only. We will adhere to the instructions and will again try to find suppliers, said the president of the Government Teachers Union (GTU) Dr Vinod Sharma.

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Education Secretary V K Singh refused to comment stating that he is not involved in the uniform issue. Schools,on the other hand,want to increase the prices.

A three-member high powered committee consisting UT Finance Secretary V K Singh,Secretary Tourism D K Tiwari and Chairman Housing Board Satya Gopal had decided that the school management committees should be authorised to invite tenders for the purchase of the uniforms and had fixed the price at Rs 300 for Class I to V and Rs 375 for Class VI to VIII.

The committee had also instructed the schools to ensure that suppliers adhere to certain standards while providing the uniforms. The committee had specified a special yarn to be chosen for making the uniforms and certain chemical and mechanical tests that uniforms required to clear. Earlier,the Director Public Instructions (DPI) (Schools) Upkar Singh said that this was done to decentralise power. The amount was fixed to bring in uniformity.

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