Saturday, May 14, 2011

Tough task ahead of Private schools


Shraddha Desai  
The private schools in the district are going to face a tough task while trying to get them recognized by District Education Office (DEO) as Block Education Officers (BEOs) will be visiting all the private schools to inspect the facilities available with them.
The BEO will first ensure during the inspection, that the schools meet the required parameters and have the said infrastructure in order to be able to provide quality education to the children studying there.
For this, the private schools will have to login to the education portal from where they can update the necessary details like availability of the staff, number of students studying in the school, infrastructure and others.
These details would be updated over the education portal and then the hard copy of it would be sent to the Block Education officer (BEO).
Once they start receiving the details sent by the schools they would then start the inspection work. The report of the inspection would be submitted to the District Education Officer (DEO).   
If the DEO is satisfied that the set criteria’s are fulfilled by the school then the recognition would be granted to them. Whole process would take place online. In case if the schools do not fulfill the criteria’s and their recognition is being cancelled then also the schools would be informed online.
The process of connecting the schools with the education portal has started from April 25 and till July 25 the schools have been given the deadline to get connected with the education portal.
 Here after, the Block Education officer’s (BEO) would start visiting the schools and then submit a report to the District Education Officer (DEO).      
Prior to this, the schools were granted recognition on the basis of the applications sent by the schools to the authorities but now with the enhancement in the technologies whole process has changed and now recognition would be given online.
The District Education Officer, CM Upadhyay said that,” the private schools would be granted online recognition. For this the schools will have to get connected with the education portal whereby they will have to mention all the necessary details for acquiring recognition. The Block Education Officer’s (BEO) have been given the responsibility of inspecting the private schools and check whether the schools fulfill the necessary criteria or not. The report would be submitted to me and on the basis of that, recognition would be given. If a school does not fulfill the necessary criteria’s then recognition would be cancelled.”