Teams led by SDM to probe complaints against schools on books & uniforms

Bhopal: District collector Kaushlendra Vikram Singh on Tuesday formed teams under SDM of respective areas of Bhopal district to carry out probes in complaints received against private schools. This was done on the basis of information received from media reports or other sources regarding parents of private school students being forced to buy books, uniforms and other study material from a particular shop or being compelled to buy books of private publications not prescribed in the syllabus. The teams comprising four members each will have SDMs of the respective areas as heads. The MP Parents' Association, however, said that the district collector's initiative to check schools has come too late. General secretary of the association, Prabodh Pandya said that the new session had begun on April 1, the collector should have issued the order before that to make such an action effective.The SDM teams will include Laxmikant Sharma, who will head the team for TT Nagar, Archana Sharma, Ravishankar Rai (Kolar Road), Aditya Jain (Bairagarh), Ravish Srivastava (Govindpura), Vinod Sonakia (Huzur) and Ashutosh Sharma (Berasia).