SHRC Asks Top Private Schools To Explain Admission Criteria

SRINAGAR — The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) Friday issued notice to the top private schools in Srinagar asking them to explain the admission criteria and “ whether the poor are given their due share.”

SHRC Chairman, Justice (retd) Bilal Nazki, issued notices to the leading private schools asking them to file a detailed compliance report before the Commission within two weeks explaining “what procedure they are following during the admission process and whether poor and downtrodden are given their due share.”  

The direction came in response to the petition filed by the Chairman International Forum for Justice and Human Rights under the case number SHRC/395/SGR/2018.  Those schools which were issued the notices by the Commission include Convent, Biscoe, Mallinson, G D Goenka, DPS Athwajan, Iqbal Memorial.

The petitioner has also submitted before the Human Rights Commission that the Heads of all the leading private schools of Kashmir should be asked to “divulge whether they have installed heating gadgets for the students in their respective schools.”

The petitioner further submitted before the Commission that he should be apprised about the details of “admission procedure followed by these schools and whether poor and downtrodden are being given admission in these schools as per the Supreme Court guidelines.”

The petitioner said that there are allegations that these schools fleece the parents on the pretext of heating arrangements but it has “come to fore that many such schools lack heating facilities for the students.” It was also asked the SHRC to carry out the “spot inspection” of the schools to ascertain whether the admission procedure was followed by the “elite schools.” He said that there was a need also to expose the “role of brokers who mint money from parents to get admission of their wards.”

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