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Order - G.O.(MS) No.202/11/G.Edn. dated 07.10.2011


Parents Association S.N Vidya Bhavan fought for the rights of parents and Children for last 4 years
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DEMANDS SUBMITTED BY PARENTS ASSOCIATION DURING THE MEETING 16/05/2011

From the records submitted for tax assessment and attachments of your letter, it’s very clear that you have shown exaggerated figures to show that the school is running at loss. It is either the school is cheating the parents or giving false information at the Government Offices to manipulate payment of taxes.

You have also shown a running expense of main School and KG Section for the year 2010-2011 as 5549069.00 which amounts to 462422.00 monthly expense. When the major expense of salary is covered separately, we do not understand how there is such a huge amount comes for other running expense per month.

We are also enclosing the copy of the Audited Annual Report and Accounts of the School for the year ended 31st March 2010. In this report you have shown the Salaries + Allowances as 15838546.00. In the same audited annual report, you have an Income of 895789.00 towards Interest Received. To receive such a huge amount as Interest, the school should have more than 1 Crore as Deposits.

As per the records at the Edathiruthi Grama Panchayath, even if the school collects pre-revised rate of fees, the school is running at profit. However the school forcefully collected revised fees from majority of the students threatening to expel them from school.

Note : In the above table we have taken the Running Expenses and EPF contribution as per the details submitted thru your letter. When the Salary shown in your letter is higher by 25 – 30 lakhs than the salary details submitted at Panchayath for tax assessment, the EPF contribution should come down. We also do not believe that there is a monthly expense nearing 5 Lakhs in the school other than salary.

DIGITALISATION

In the year 2009-2010, the school hiked the fees without consultation with PTA. As per the circular issued at that time, the management said that all classrooms are digitalized and the fees increase is for this purpose. However till date no class rooms have been digitalized. The School website (www.snvbss.org) says that the entire school is digitalized interactive classes and the entire campus is having digital monitoring system. This information on the school is mis-leading the parents and the students were cheated by the school authorities. Moreover in the proposed special fees structure attached along with your letter dated 4/5/1011 (Annexure V) you have again added SMART CLASS FEE of Rs 100.00

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Lat three years the school was running without a Principal. We had requested many times to appoint a Principal for the school. However the school appointed a CEO. We have not heard of any school run by a charitable trust having a CEO. CEO is usually seen only on corporate companies. By appointing the CEO, the school authorities make the school as a commercial business. A CEO is not at all required in the academic matters of the school. The Tax Assessment submitted at the Edathiruthy Grama Panchayath reveals that the CEO is paid 3,60,000.00 yearly. Mr. Noorudheen, CEO of the school was thrown out from one of the famous CBSE Schools in Nilambur for his immoral activities at that school. If the Trust need such a CEO for their corporate business, his salary should not be paid from the fees received at the school and should be done separately by the trust and he should not in any manner involve in the day to day activities of the school.

INFRASTRUCTURE

In the academic year 2000 – 2001, the strength of the school was around 2000 students. In the year 2010 – 2011, the strength is above 4000. However to accommodate this strength, the school has not made any additional class rooms, toilets, staircases. Playgrounds etc in the school. When CBSE bye law states that class rooms should not have more than 30 students, all class rooms of the school is over crowded with nearly 50 students. More than 10 class rooms have the strength of above 50 students. As per CBSE Bye Law, a student should have at least 1 Sq Mtr space in the class room.

CAPITATION FEES

Though it’s strictly forbidden, the school collects huge amount of Capitation fees every year. In the year 2010 – 2011, the following new admission was made in the school and capitation was collected as follows:

Though the amount was collected by the school as capitation fees, none of the parents were given receipt for the same. These amounts were also not shown in your Income statements. For last three years new admission and floating admission were similar. Capitation collected during this three years is above 1.6 Crores every year.

TOILETS & URINALS

The school does not have adequate number of toilets, wash basins or urinals according to the strength of the students. The existing toilets are not cleaned and properly maintained. There is no buckets / mug provided at toilets. School should provide proper facilities like ramps toilets for wheel chair users and auditory signals in elevators in lifts, staircases in accordance with the provisions laid down in PWD Act, 1995

PLAYGROUND

The school with more than 4000 students does not have a single play ground facility for the children. As per CBSE Bye Law every school should have separate playground for Kho-Kho, Kabadi, Volley-Ball and with 200 mtr track outside the school campus. Our school does not have any playground for these purposes as mentioned in the CBSE Bye-Law

ADHERENCE OF RULES OF CBSE AFFILIATION BYE-LAWS

Though it’s mandatory for the school to adhere to the CBSE Bye-Law, many of the clauses of CBSE Bye-Law are not followed at the school.

i. Fees should normally be charged under the heads prescribed by the Department of Education of the State/U.T. for schools of different categories. No capitation fee or voluntary donations for gaining admission in the school or for any other purpose should be charged or collected in the name of the school.

Our School does not comply with the above clause in CBSE Bye-Law. School is collecting amounts ranging from 20,000 to 35,000 from all newly admitted students without any receipt.

ii. The premises of the school should not be used for any commercial activity and no commercial shops for sale of books, uniforms etc. be operated within the school campus.

The school is selling Uniform materials for more than 20% hiked rate from market at the school thru Varna Fabrics, Thriprayar owned by Mr. Manoj who is the Vice President of the School Management. When the uniform materials are purchased at bulk, it should actually given to students at 20% less rate than market rate. Parents are compelled to purchase Uniform materials only from this store running inside the school as a branch of Varna Fabrics. This should be stopped immediately and liberty should be given to parents to purchase uniform materials from outside.

ASBESTOS SHEETS ON MAIN SCHOOL BUILDING

The Kerala Human Rights Commission that has ruled that exposing Indians to asbestos is a human rights violation. On January 31, 2009, the Commission ruled that the government should take steps to phase out asbestos roofing from all schools in the state. Constant exposure to asbestos caused diseases such as lung cancer, asbestosis, Asthma and mesuthelema. The recommendation comes on a petition by Mukesh Jain of Mattancherry, who pointed out to the commission the health risks of asbestos. Asbestos sheets are also banned by W.H.O. Though we requested the school management many times to replace the asbestos sheets which are used as roofing for the main school, the management never attended to this. The Parents Association again requests the school to replace all the asbestos sheets on the main school with immediate effect.

PTA BUS

The transport system used at the school uses PTA Buses. However no audited reports on these PTA buses were presented before the parents. As no annual General Body was called after 2008, the PTA secretary, Mrs. Sreedevi P Thashnath, has not changed yet. AMrs. Sreedevi P Thashnath is not working in the school currently. However the PTA Funds, the Bank Accounts and the Bus Operations are done illegally by the school authorities. PTA Annual General Body should be called as soon as the school re-opens for 2011-2012, Audited reports to be presented and new office bearers should be elected.

PTA & PTA FUND

ON 5/8/2007 a PTA Annual General Body Meeting was conducted at the school in which the management and the PTA Secretary, then Principal Mrs Sreedevi P Thashnath, did not attend fearing to face the parents and their issues. During that Meeting, Mrs K.A Suseela, the then Vice Principal attended the meeting and a resolution was passed that the then PTA Committee would continue till the AGM was called. PTA Fund from each parents also collected during that academic year. Later PTA Executive committee was held on 27/6/2008 and However no AGM of PTA has been called so far. An amount nearly 2,50,000.00 collected towards the PTA fund is lying with the School authorities. The PTA Treasurer, Mrs. M.P Kalyani Kutty and Secretary, K.A Suseela should present the audited accounts report for the above amount collected from parents towards PTA Fund.

COURT ORDERS

The Kodungallur Musiff Court, The Sub Court, Irinjalakuda and the Hon’ble High Court found that the revision of fees during the years 2008-2009, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 done by the school is illegal as the school did not comply with the CBSE Bye-Law. The school management president had filed an affidavit in OP ( C ) 342/2011 at High Court of Kerala. In this affidavit the management says that “As per the temporary injunction order passed in OS 891/2009 the Munsiff Court restrained us from collecting the revised tuition fee”. Its also mentioned in the same affidavit that the Court had ordered to keep statusquo which is the pre-revised fees. However the school still threatens and collects the revised fees from parents. Though the court had directed to collect pre-revised rate of fees from all those who have objection on the revised fees, school is threatening parents and students and collecting revised fees. This is a clear violation of court orders. All fees collected illegally are to be returned to the parents.

CBSE TUITION CENTRE

Though we have intimated about the illegal CBSE Tuition Centre run by Mr. Unnikrishnan V.U, the Physical Education Instructor of the school and many of the schools teachers are taking tuition and compelling the students to join this centre, no action was taken from by the school management. When some of the parents complained to CBSE regarding the school conducting Medical and Engg Entrance coaching at the school, the same hoarding used at the school was shifted to this CBSE Tuition Centre by just pasting a sticker to hide school address. This shows the illegal tie-up of the school management and the CBSE tuition centre run by teachers of the school mainly Mr. Unnikrishnan V.U

CRASH COURSE at CBSE TUITION CENTRE

Just 2 weeks before the Xth standard final examination 2011, one of the teachers of the school who also takes tuition at CBSE tuition centre compelled all the students to attend a Crash Course at CBSE Tuition centre for 10 days and looted Rs 500.00 from each student. This teacher taught mathematics for these students for 10 months and finally looted the students by taking a 10 day crash course. This illegal activity of the teacher was immediately pointed out to the Secretary and the Principal. However till date no action was taken against this. We parents pay the school fees for the teachers to teach at the school. The amount collected for this crash course should be returned back with immediate effect.


OPEN HOUSE

The school used to conduct open house for the parents to meet the teachers and assess the child’s learning. However for last three years this practice is stopped. Open House should be re-instated from next academic year onwards.

MEDICAL EXAMINATION

The school is collecting Rs. 2,27,625.00 for medical and nursing during a year. CBSE instructs to conduct medical examination of each student at periodic intervals. However this practice is not there in the school. School should conduct medical examination of students at least once an academic year. As there were no medical examination conducted during the last years, fees collected from students in the name of Medical should be returned back. Please refer to CBSE Bye Law 13 (6) Page 14

QUALIFICATION OF TEACHING STAFF

Parents do have the right to know who is teaching their children and their qualifications. If any parent asks for educational details of any teaching staff, it should be provided at the cost of photocopies.

Right to Information Act 2005 (Sec 2 – f)
"information" means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force.

Right to Education Bill 2005 (Sec 23 - 2 )
Recruitment of teachers shall be carried out in accordance with transparent, merit-based criteria, and information thereof shall be made available in the public domain.

Please also refer decision No. CIC/AT/A/2008/01083 dated 25-05-2009 of Central Information Commission, New Delhi in Sobhraj Sahu v/s SEBI, available at www.cic.gov.in AND judgement dated 25-09-2009 of hon’ble HIGH COURT OF DELHI in WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 7265 OF 2007 available at:
http://lobis.nic.in/dhc/SKN/judgement/06-10-2009/SKN25092009CW72652007.pdf

PRINCIPAL FOR SCHOOL

Last three years the school was running without a Principal. We had made several requests to the management to appoint a principal. However the management did not appoint a principal for more than 3 academic years. The management instead appointed a CEO paying huge salary of 3,60,000.00 yearly. Management was not at all interested in the well being and education of the students but was eager to make more money out of the school.

SCHOOL FUND USED TO PURCHASE LAND FOR TRUST (CLICK FOR DETAILS)

Though the CBSE bye law clearly states that funds from the school should only be used for the infrastructure and development of the school alone, during the year 2010-2011 the management purchased a land for 3 Crores in the name of the Trust. The audited Accounts Report for the year 2010 of the Trust has the details of this purchase (copy attached). This land purchased more than 2 KMs away from the school is not meant for the development of the school. Moreover the land cannot be used for construction or cannot be filled for using as play grounds. The Government laws do not allow filling the canals in this land. The fund taken out from the school fees receipt and capitation receipt should be brought back to the school accounts. Management should not use any fund from the school for any reason other than the development of the school.

TEMPORARY TEACHING STAFF

CBSE Bye Law makes it clear that teachers should not be appointed on adhoc basis or temporary basis. However for the last 3 years, the school had terminated many efficient teachers and appointed fresh teachers. This has affected the teaching standards at the school. More than 4 lakhs are charged from teachers to make them permanent. This practice should be stopped with immediate effect.

SCHOOL BAGS

CBSE Bye Law states that children of 2nd standard and below should not have school bags or heavy books. According to Medical Science, usage of heavy bags would create problems the backbones of the children. However in our school children of LKG and UKG are forced to buy and use the school bag supplied by the school. Parents are charged heavily for these bags. CBSE has banned selling of bags, uniform, books etc by the school.

DRINKING WATER FACILITY

When we parents complained to the Principal-In-Charge regarding the drinking water problem, the Principal-n-Charge replied that 85% of the students bring water bottles to the school so there is no need for having drinking water facility at the school. Proper and clean drinking water facility should be made available at each floor of the school building. There are more than 4000 students and nearly 300 staff in the school. Sufficient drinking water should be provided.

FIRE AND SAFETY

The school does not have any arrangement for Fire and Safety. In case of an emergency the school does not have any kind of safety arrangements. With nearly 5000 humans moving around daily, the school should have proper fire and safety measurements. CBSE has clear guidance regarding the safety requirements at schools.

LABORATORY FACILITY

The school currently does not have sufficient laboratory facilities. School should build and maintain separate labs for each section as instructed by CBSE.

MINI AUDITORIUM

Rolling shutters are used in between to separate the mini auditorium into many class rooms. Several injuries were reported from these class rooms as children while playing get contact with these rolling shutters. This practice should be stopped with immediate effect.

COMPUTER FOR EACH STUDENT

From the year 2000, the school is charging Rs 600.00 per student for computer classes. More than 25 Lakhs of rupees were collected for computer classes for last 10 years. However during computer periods, one computer is given for more than 5 students. During computer practical classes each student should be given individual computers so that they get ample time to use the computer and practice their lessons.

HINDI CLASS

To collect capitation fees the school is giving admission for more students than it can accommodate. Students who took Hindi as Second language thus are put into different divisions and during hindi period they are brought together in one class to teach hindi. Much of the students time is wasted in this process. This practice should be immediately stopped and separate divisions are to be made available for students who took hindi and Malayalam.
AUDITORIUM FOR DANCE AND MUSIC

School should have auditorium facility for dance and music. Currently the one and only mini auditorium is divided into many class rooms using rolling shutters which are dangerous for children. Students who took dance / music are thus having problem to attend these classes.

SCHOOL MAGAZINE

In the year 2010 – 2011 the school insisted that every student should purchase the School magazine. However we objected this and in front of the S I of police it was decided that only one magazine needed to be purchased by a parent who have more than one child in the school. School collected the magazine fees from each parent in June 2010 but the magazine was not given to any parent till date. This amount should be given back to each parent with immediate effect.

STAIRCASE

School does not have sufficient staircases to accommodate the huge strength of students and teachers. As there are no toilets or urinals on each floor, students have to come to the ground floor during intervals and lunch breaks. The crowds on the available staircases are always rush and small children finds it difficult. In case of an emergency, the situation would be very dangerous.

ANNUAL DAY

The school use to conduct its annual day efficiently. Proficiency prizes for class toppers, youth festival participants, sports winners etc were distributed by the school and the PTA to encourage the students. However for last three years school is not conducting it annual day. Annual day should be re-instated from next academic year onwards.

SCHOLARSHIP

As per the CBSE laws, Education Bill and the Bye law of SNE & C trust, there were scholarships issued to many students who were financially week but good at studies. The management had stopped this practice for last three years. Scholarships should be given to efficient students who have financial burdens.

ISSUE RECEIPT FOR ANY AMOUNT COLLECTED AT SCHOOL

The school is not issuing any receipt for many amounts collected from the parents and students. CBSE Bye Law strictly warns against this. In future, receipts should be issued for any amounts collected in the school. Moreover the capitation taken from children should be given back when they leave the school permanently.

AUDITED EXPENSES REPORT

In your audited annual report for the year ended 31/3/2010 the expenditure for Legal Expenses of 74370.00 for which the parents are not liable. This expense should be personally liable by the president, secretary and the management committee and refunded to the school accounts. This expense was the result of unwanted cases filed against the parents.

The PTA bus income and expenditure is shown in the management audited report. PTA and PTA Bus funds were not audited during the last three years. So showing these values in the management financials is a clear case of audit objection. The entire financials should be re-audited to see actual profit / loss during the year.
 

PROPOSED FEES BY PARENTS ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR 2011 – 2012

PROPOSED SPECIAL FEES BREAK-UP FOR THE YEAR 2011 – 2012

Note : Last 2 years Celebration Fees was collected @ 75.00 per student. However No celebration was conducted by the school.

          Last 3 Years Youth Festival fees were collected. However youth festival or annual day was not conducted.

          As per your audited report 2010-2011 the expense for medical is only 5434.00. However the medical fees collection is 100325.00

During the year 2007-2008, the management consulted with PTA and increased the Tuition Fees. It was unilaterally decided that the next enhancing of fees will be applicable only after three years in consultation with PTA according to the new facilities added during that three year period. The fees increase done in between without consulting the PTA is illegal and not at all applicable to the parents of SN Vidya Bhavan.