Big day for Parents in Andhra Pradesh tomorrow!

Finally the day of Judgement is tomorrow ! A history in making is tomorrow (27th August, 2010)

A re-cap for most of you, the High Court of AP under the bench of Judges Sri Goda Raghuram & Sri Naushad Ali heard for over 6 days, as many as 19 cases filed by various school managements, taken up by some of the senior most advocates not just from Hyderabad but also from Supreme Court, to quash the GO MS91 since it stops them from profiteering in the name of social cause.

On behalf of lakhs of parents in AP in particular & many more across India, HSPA has taken up the responsibility to defend this as its the only saviour to a certain extent when implemented in true spirit, rescue parents from the clutches of greedy managements from minting money from schools in the name of social work.

Now as per the causelist of AP HC, the cases are up for judgement tomorrow ie 27th August, 2010 after it was last heard towards end of April, 2010. Lets pray & look high at the High Court, which in all probability would support the cause of parents not just for today, but for generations to come.

http://causelists.nic.in/temp/28475.html

Jai Ho

God save the country !

CIC: Pvt schools too under RTI Act

NEW DELHI: Private recognized schools cannot claim exemption from disclosing information to Education Directorate under Right to Information Act, a full bench of the Central Information Commission (CIC) has held, thus virtually bringing them under the ambit of the transparency law.

‘‘The issues relating to management and regulation of schools responsible for promotion of education are so important for development that it cannot be left at whims and caprices of private bodies, whether funded or not by the Government,’’ the bench said in its order deciding on disclosure of service records of a teacher employed at a private school.

Bindu Khanna, a teacher at Pinnacle School at Panchsheel Enclave, had filed an RTI application with Education Directorate seeking to know her service records. But despite orders of the Directorate to provide the details, the school maintained that it was a private body and hence outside RTI purview. It cited sections of the law which exempt the disclosure of personal information.

The Commission said various clauses of Delhi School Education Rules, 1973 say that ‘‘all records’’ of a private recognized school are open to inspection by any officer authorized by the Director or the appropriate authority at any time.

The records provided to education department by the schools can be accessed by an RTI applicant, it said.  ‘‘Information which a public authority is entitled to access, under any law, from private body, is ‘information’ as defined under Section 2(f) of the RTI Act and has to be furnished,’’ the Commission said in its order rejecting the claims of the school. Quoting a high court order in this regard, the bench said the term ‘third party’ includes not only the public authority but also any private body.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/CIC-Pvt-schools-too-under-RTI-Act/articleshow/6259311.cms