Mangaluru: Covid-induced financial crunch and lack of school receipts have forced 14 schools in Dakshina Kannada to close their operations.
Of the 14th, one is a government school, four schools assisted and nine are institutions that are not paid or private.
All have written to the Public Instruction Department (DPI), trying to close their doors.
The only deadly government school is doing it because of lack of fresh entry.
The school is in Kilenjur, under the Mangaluru North Block Education (Beo) limit.
Lower elementary schools have two children, who are siblings.
They completed their studies and there was no new acceptance of this academic year.
Within the same paragraph boundaries, two schools assisted and those who are not paid have sent a proposal for closing.
At the South Beo boundary Mangaluru, two schools without help and the helped people are expected to close their doors too.
In the Moodbidri parrot, one school assisted and one school without assistance, and within the border of Bantal Beo, two schools without help have been looking for closure.
There are two schools without assistance closed within the boundary of Putture and one without assistance at the border of Sullia, said Manjula KL, Deputy Coordinator of the Samagra Shiksha Karnataka project, Dakshina Kannada.
The main reason for school closure without help is a non-payment of fees.
This has produced a financial crisis for them.
Poor acceptance and management of institutional is also a factor that leads the school to decide to be closed.
“We serve children from low-income groups.
As a result of a pandemic, their parents haven’t paid us the right cost.
We can’t pay our staff and maintain building maintenance.
We can’t support ourselves longer after the economic blow and decide To be closed.
Institutions can open next year, “said the Head of the Institution.
A DPI official said: “Private school principals in Moodbidri have gone to communicate and all staff have been dismissed.
Meanwhile, all students have been given a transfer certificate without quoting the reasons for the closing of the school.
We have asked them to clarify,” the official said.
DDPI Malleswamy shares that the closure of several schools is temporary.
“They might open in the next academic year,” he said.
Covid aftermath: no fees, bad reception encouraged 14 schools in DK to be closed
