AGARTALA, August 13 (TIWN): Education is now becoming a way of minting money in the country and Tripura is not exceptional. The virus of commercialisation of education has allegedly entered through the private schools that have mushroomed in every nook and corner of the state and has become a cause of serious concern.

In tribal dominated areas where numerous private schools can be witnessed doing lucrative business. Most of these schools are not following the norms of running private schools in the state. These schools are devoid of basic facilities like separate bathroom, toilet for boys and girls, emergency exit doors, fire extinguishers, emergency exit doors, playground for physical education, library, laboratory and so on.

These schools are minting money from the parents but do not provide the basic facilities, including nutritious and hygienic food to the hostel boarders.

The parents and guardians of many students, whose wards live in hostels, also complained of poor hostel management. Many minor boarding students of a school were reportedly ill due to malnutrition. One of the suffering students alleged that they are served only rice, dal,potato, inferior quality dry fish and soyabean as their meal throughout the year.

The parents and guardians often fall prey to false promises of management or owners of such school and get their wards enrolled in those schools.

The management or owners of those schools lure the parents and guardians to provide their wards with the best education. It is also doubtful whether the teachers they engage are qualified ones.  It was revealed after investigation that many teachers presently serving in many private schools are undergraduates. These teachers teach students of Class X and XI. Now a layman can easily gauge the quality of education being imparted to the students in those schools.

Isn’t it the duty of the Govt. of Tripura look into this serious matter?

Time has come to tighten the noose on those private schools before it is too late.