सोमवार, 18 मई 2020

Discrimination in education in the name of minorities in India

Someone sent me this meme where West is fighting pandemic while our schools are asking for fees👉 USA or Italy haven't suspended taking fees. BTW just because of Pandemic can we willingly forego our salaries or income? School issue is not so simple. Law: 93rd amendment, article 15(5), article 30, and RTE Act have seggregated schools into "minority" and non minority. Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists are under minority with muslims and christians under the laws for education. Non minority schools are completely non aided ie NO Govt support/subsidies/funding of any kind. But under RTE they've to fill 25% seats to various disadvantaged groups from whom they cannot take fees by law and no such seat should remain vacant, their fees is paid from the fees of regular students but most states have put limits on raising the fees for years. The fees from students provides for the salaries of staff. But non minority schools must recruit teachers per Govt rules and pay salaries accordingly. 

  Minority schools do NOT have any such rules, also, they've a huge chunk of schools which are given Govt assistance, funding, subsidies under the "aided" category, including the salaries of staff; also they've full freedom in recruiting teachers where exemptions in TET and other qualifications are upheld as legal by courts. Also, under minority category they get many rebates exemptions which non-minority do not get. 

I don't know how many of us here know how education and educational institutions are legally subjected to religious discrimination. Also, all minority schools, colleges, universities can teach their respective religion in their institutions as they're privileged by law while the non-minority institutions cannot teach their religion to students as they're subjected to  law. 

So before you ask schools to not ask for fees ask their status under article 30 भाई। A category of schools do not have money for their staff to pay remember, and another set is flush with money. 
So who's asking fees matters. 
Think, understand, act accordingly. 

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