Dehra Dun, September 10
The Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttarakhand is not happy with the functioning of private schools in Doon Valley — known as the “school capital” of India — especially if they happen to be run by Christian missionaries.
It believes that complaints of harrassment and fleecing of parents and wards by these schools have been rising and it has set up a probe committee.
Education minister Madan Kaushik said the Ms Karen Hilton, BJP’s nominated legislator, would head the committee that has education officials from both Garhwal and Kumoan regions on it.
Also, the committee would study “the pattern of governmental control over private schools” in other states.
Kaushik is a RSS product and has been the head of the Bajrang Dal unit of Hardwar district.
There are a large number of prestigious private schools in Dehradun, Mussoorie and Nainital. Doon School, Welham, St. George’s , St. Joseph, Wynberg Allen and Mussoorie International are among the better known.
Most of these schools are being run independently with no government support or control. But now BJP state government wants to have some say in the functioning of these schools.
