New Delhi: After 22 years, a new public elementary school in Mohan Garden has decided to lower the window.
As Gyandeep Vidya Mandir in Madanpur Khadar in Southeast Delhi and Oxford Public School in Jagatpuri, East Delhi, both after running for 18 years.
The three are private budget schools, providing secondary secondary education at affordable costs, but now find it difficult to collect costs with Covid-19 hit the income of parents to add new revenues and their students flock to government institutions.
At Gyandeep Vidya Mandir, which was closed on April 1, a notice said, “School management was forced to make this decision because students did not pay more than one year and teachers also did not work together.” A solitary guard now keeps the school complex 17,000 sq ft.
The notification was surprising for the teachers, who claimed not to be paid a salary for 2020 despite doing online classes.
After last year’s locking, the number of students fell to less than 100, including several students from the economically weaker part.
Eight teachers moved Delhi High Court to school management to get their delayed salaries.
Teacher Mohammad Sijgill, 28, said, “I need to pay my salary for one year and percent to work more than five years.
School owners don’t understand the financial stress we face.” Some teachers who have worked at school for the past 15 years are now staring at the school.
uncertain future.
More worried about parents like Azama’s autorickshaw driver, whose daughter studied in class III as an EWS student.
“I want him to get good English education and I claim to go to this school.
I don’t want him to go to the government school.
I haven’t taken a transfer certificate,” Azama said.
RG Mehra, a member of the school management, said, “The problem is sub-yudice.
Proceedings of the investigation have begun to the teacher and they can be played immediately.
The number of students has fallen from 200 in February 2020 to around 37.
It is impossible to run school with total costs Around Rs 25,000 a month.
Most parents do not pay fees, so how is it possible to carry out such establishments? “In public elementary school new schools too, the strength of students dropped from 600 in 2019 to almost neglected now.
Sanjay Sanjay Agarwal said, “We have told the state government to take over the school or we will turn it off.
We can’t even pay the security guard.” R k uppal, manager Oxford Public School, claimed to have only 50 on the roll now.
In these schools, monthly fees range from Rs 400 to RS 1,500.
After class VIII, students usually shift to government schools.
But all three are not the only affordable institutions that are influenced by pandemics.
Chandrakant Singh, National Secretary General, Personal Land Public School Trust, Budget School Association, “Every Day, School Owners ask us about the process to close or if there is help.” Rajesh Gupta, who runs a school solar model and the green gold school model in Najafgarh, said, “Yes, it becomes very difficult for us.
Our Management Committee immediately held a meeting to decide what we should do.”