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licence-permit-quota raj despair in k-12 education

EducationWorld July 2023 | Cover Story Magazine
Even as the government school system has proved a monumental failure with a steady exodus of children into private schools, in all 28 states and eight Union territories rents-seeking bureaucrats are tying up private school promoters and managements in red tape and nit-picking minutiae, writes Abhishree Choudhary, Bhavna Mundhra & Prisha Saxena Although post-independence India’s infamous licence-permit-quota raj in industry substantially ended in 1991 with the landmark liberalisation and deregulation of the Indian economy, it is alive and kicking in Indian education, K-12 education in particular. Even as the public (government) school system has proved a monumental failure with a steady exodus of children into private schools, in all 28 states and eight Union territories rents-seeking bureaucrats are tying up private school promoters and managements in red tape and nit-picking minutiae. For instance in the southern state of Karnataka (pop.69 million), over 1,000 private schools are under the guillotine for sundry charges ranging from adding new classes without official permission, levying unreasonable fees, teaching in the English medium and claiming to be CBSE/CISCE-affiliated schools pending approval of affiliation applications. On February 15, the state’s education ministry said that “criminal charges” will be filed against 1,316 ‘unauthorised’ private unaided schools for contravention of various provisions of the Karnataka Education Act 1983. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp
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