Schools rope students

Statesman News Service

MALDA, April 6:- In order to check irregularities in the admission tests for class V students in government aided schools, the Malda district inspector will summon some school authorities tomorrow. The DI of schools, Mr. Chinmay Sarkar, expressed unhappiness over the unhealthy competition of admission tests among reputed schools in Malda town despite government's recent orders. While the government issued an order the school authorities would not be allowed to take admission for class V in April, all reputed schools in Malda town have started admission in class V after publishing results of their admission tests conducted last week. Not only that the school authorities are receiving high amount of admission fees, there was no uniformity in the admission procedure. Some schools have ‘seized’ original transfer certificate of the students at the time of admission so that they can not take admission in other reputed schools after publication of results. The DI of schools has received several complaints (most of them are verbal) regarding non refundable admission fees. For example , according to the complaints, admission fees for Vivekananda Vidyamandir is Rs. 2000 for this year, A C Institution has announced Rs. 580 , Lalit Mohan has claimed Rs. 750, C C Girls’ High school has collected Rs. 850 on Saturday during admission and Malda Girls’ had already collected Rs. 500. The DI of schools have received complaints that the Malda girls’ has taken hold of transfer certificate of students who took admission in class V. On the other hand, the CC Girls did not follow reservation policy but published admission test results on merit. Yesterday, the DI has received such complaint when guardians lodged protest in front of the school.