<p>The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Directorate of Education and a private school on Monday on a petition filed by a teacher about the school management’s malpractice of taking a cut from teachers’ salaries every month. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The court has sought response within four weeks and listed the matter for hearing on October 18. A teacher of St John’s School in Greater Kailash had refused to pay back money and moved court against the illegal demand. <br /><br />According to the petitioner’s counsel Ashok Agarwal, “After a teacher is paid salary, a certain amount is taken back forcibly by a bearer cheque or in cash. And the amount is transferred to an account of the society running the school.” <br /><br />“In this case, the school has taken back money every month by way of bearer cheque from her (litigant teacher’s) salary from July 1999 to April 2012, amounting to Rs 7,50,956,” Agarwal said. <br /><br />The petitioner also claimed that she has been illegally denied salary according to the 6th Pay Commission since January 2006. <br /><br />CAG report <br /><br />The CAG report in 2010 held that 25 elite private schools in the capital passed on the burden of implementing the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission to parents, which they had accumulated by not implementing the staff salaries prescribed by the government. <br /><br />The money collected from parents towards enhanced salaries was transferred into their societies and trusts. Schools that claimed to be making losses did not hesitate to acquire expensive cars, the report had said. <br /><br />The CAG had audited the accounts of 25 schools. These were Amity International, DPS-RK Puram, GD Goenka, Modern School, Ryan International, St Mary, Birla Vidya Niketan, Air Force Bal Bharti, GD Salwan, National Victor, Mount Carmel, ASN School, Sachdeva, Mother Divine, Sadhu Vaswani, Maharaja Agrasen, Convent of Jesus and Mary, Frank Anthony, Presentation Convent, Summer Fields, JD Tytler, Sardar Patel, Vasant Valley, Ramjas Public School and St Xavier’s School. <br /><br />CAG had pointed out nine cases of illegal transfers. Birla Vidya Niketan had paid Rs 5.23 crore as rent to Birla Academy of Art and Culture and Rs 2.5 crore on repair and maintenance and Sardar Patel had paid Rs 2.33 crore as usage charge to Gujarat Education Society for using its infrastructure. <br /></p>
<p>The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Directorate of Education and a private school on Monday on a petition filed by a teacher about the school management’s malpractice of taking a cut from teachers’ salaries every month. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The court has sought response within four weeks and listed the matter for hearing on October 18. A teacher of St John’s School in Greater Kailash had refused to pay back money and moved court against the illegal demand. <br /><br />According to the petitioner’s counsel Ashok Agarwal, “After a teacher is paid salary, a certain amount is taken back forcibly by a bearer cheque or in cash. And the amount is transferred to an account of the society running the school.” <br /><br />“In this case, the school has taken back money every month by way of bearer cheque from her (litigant teacher’s) salary from July 1999 to April 2012, amounting to Rs 7,50,956,” Agarwal said. <br /><br />The petitioner also claimed that she has been illegally denied salary according to the 6th Pay Commission since January 2006. <br /><br />CAG report <br /><br />The CAG report in 2010 held that 25 elite private schools in the capital passed on the burden of implementing the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission to parents, which they had accumulated by not implementing the staff salaries prescribed by the government. <br /><br />The money collected from parents towards enhanced salaries was transferred into their societies and trusts. Schools that claimed to be making losses did not hesitate to acquire expensive cars, the report had said. <br /><br />The CAG had audited the accounts of 25 schools. These were Amity International, DPS-RK Puram, GD Goenka, Modern School, Ryan International, St Mary, Birla Vidya Niketan, Air Force Bal Bharti, GD Salwan, National Victor, Mount Carmel, ASN School, Sachdeva, Mother Divine, Sadhu Vaswani, Maharaja Agrasen, Convent of Jesus and Mary, Frank Anthony, Presentation Convent, Summer Fields, JD Tytler, Sardar Patel, Vasant Valley, Ramjas Public School and St Xavier’s School. <br /><br />CAG had pointed out nine cases of illegal transfers. Birla Vidya Niketan had paid Rs 5.23 crore as rent to Birla Academy of Art and Culture and Rs 2.5 crore on repair and maintenance and Sardar Patel had paid Rs 2.33 crore as usage charge to Gujarat Education Society for using its infrastructure. <br /></p>
