Unaided Private Schools’ Horata Samithi, Bangalore, has said that derecognised primary schools which have obtained a High Court stay on the State Government’s voluntary scheme, would conduct first to fifth standard classes in English medium till further orders from the court.
Samithi president N Venkatachalaiah told reporters here on Monday that “if at all the Government initiates action against these schools, it would be nothing but contempt of court” and that Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti had been making ‘contradictory’ remarks on the issue.
It was after several of the derecognised Samithi member-schools had petitioned the HC, that the stay was granted for eight weeks.
They had also pleaded that they be allowed to continue in English medium till the case involving schools that started before 1994, was settled.
Horatti ‘evasive’
“Mr Horatti is being over-enthusiastic in getting the stay on the voluntary scheme vacated, but he hasn’t explained why he is not keen on an early settlement of the case regarding the pre-’94 schools,’’ he said.
The voluntary scheme did not apply to Samithi members and there was no question of paying the penalty and seeking fresh recognition.
Many new ICSE and CBSE schools were cropping up, taking advantage of derecognition of the 2,200 schools, he said and urged the government to publicise the list of these new schools and of those derecognised schools which had converted themselves into ICSE and CBSE mode, and to take legal action against them.