PARENTS TO PAY FOR AVOIDABLE ADS OF UNAIDED SCHOOLS-AIPA WRITES TO DELHI CHIEF MINISTER TO REGULATE ADS
ALL INDIA PARENTS ASSOCIATION (AIPA)
AGARWAL BHAWAN G T ROAD TIS HAZARI
DELHI-110054 PHONE 011-23910014
To
Hon’ble Smt. Sheila Dikshit,
Chief Minister of Delhi,
Secretariat, I.P.Estate,
New Delhi-110001
15.01.2012
Sub: Regulate publicity advertisements by unaided private schools to curb commercialization of education
My Dear Chief Minister,
In law, commercialization of education is prohibited but in practice such commercialization is rampant and the government has utterly failed to check the same. In the backdrop of human, fundamental and birth right of free school education of every child as guaranteed under Articles 14, 15, 21, 21-A and 38 of the Constitution of India, the unaided private schools are literally bent upon looting the hapless parents.
These days, one can see large numbers of big size advertisements on road sides of several unaided private schools (for instance, G.D.Goenka School and VSPK School in Model Town area). Not only this, one can also see such advertisements in both electronic and print media. It is quite apparent that the burden of huge amounts being spent by the private schools on these avoidable advertisements would simply be shifted upon the hapless parents who are already subjected to exorbitant, arbitrary and unjust fee hike by the unaided private schools every year and crying for justice.
Needless to say that the government’s deliberate failure to provide good quality education to the children in State-run schools is forcing hapless parents to send their children to unaided private schools and to spend nearly 40% of their hard earned income on the same. The inaction on the part of the government to regulate publicity advertisements by the unaided private schools involving huge expenditures would further jeopardize the interests of the parents. It is submitted that such avoidable advertisements are against public interest and opposed to the public policy.
It is, therefore, requested that the government should forthwith frame regulations regulating the publicity advertisements by the unaided private schools. We, however, make it clear that we are not against necessary and unavoidable advertisements by the unaided private schools but we are strongly against those which are given with a view to commercialize education.
With regards,
Ashok Agarwal, Advocate
National President, AIPA
AGARWAL BHAWAN G T ROAD TIS HAZARI
DELHI-110054 PHONE 011-23910014
To
Hon’ble Smt. Sheila Dikshit,
Chief Minister of Delhi,
Secretariat, I.P.Estate,
New Delhi-110001
15.01.2012
Sub: Regulate publicity advertisements by unaided private schools to curb commercialization of education
My Dear Chief Minister,
In law, commercialization of education is prohibited but in practice such commercialization is rampant and the government has utterly failed to check the same. In the backdrop of human, fundamental and birth right of free school education of every child as guaranteed under Articles 14, 15, 21, 21-A and 38 of the Constitution of India, the unaided private schools are literally bent upon looting the hapless parents.
These days, one can see large numbers of big size advertisements on road sides of several unaided private schools (for instance, G.D.Goenka School and VSPK School in Model Town area). Not only this, one can also see such advertisements in both electronic and print media. It is quite apparent that the burden of huge amounts being spent by the private schools on these avoidable advertisements would simply be shifted upon the hapless parents who are already subjected to exorbitant, arbitrary and unjust fee hike by the unaided private schools every year and crying for justice.
Needless to say that the government’s deliberate failure to provide good quality education to the children in State-run schools is forcing hapless parents to send their children to unaided private schools and to spend nearly 40% of their hard earned income on the same. The inaction on the part of the government to regulate publicity advertisements by the unaided private schools involving huge expenditures would further jeopardize the interests of the parents. It is submitted that such avoidable advertisements are against public interest and opposed to the public policy.
It is, therefore, requested that the government should forthwith frame regulations regulating the publicity advertisements by the unaided private schools. We, however, make it clear that we are not against necessary and unavoidable advertisements by the unaided private schools but we are strongly against those which are given with a view to commercialize education.
With regards,
Ashok Agarwal, Advocate
National President, AIPA
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