Over 18,700 government schools in State have no land records

Though the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) has been moving a ‘Government School and Educational Institutions Property Protection Campaign’ for the past 3 years to support the properties of authorities schools, it has been recovered that 18,791 authorities schools crossed the State bash not person immoderate onshore records.

The authorities has present taken steps to bring “The Karnataka School Education Department Properties Protection Bill 2025, oregon The Karnataka Protection of Government School/Colleges Properties Bill” to registry the properties of authorities schools successful the sanction of the DSEL.

Responding to a question raised by expelled BJP subordinate Basanagouda R. Patil Yatnal successful the caller session, School Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa said the properties of 17,356 authorities superior schools and 1,435 precocious schools crossed the State were not registered successful the sanction of the section and don’t person gross documents. “Therefore, the connection to enact a abstracted measure related to the registration of these properties is nether review,” helium said.

There are presently 48,436 authorities schools successful the State, including 43,564 superior and 4,872 precocious schools. Most of these schools person been allotted onshore by the government, portion galore donors person donated onshore and sites to galore schools.

However, retired of these, a full of 18,791 authorities schoolhouse lands and sites person not been registered successful the sanction of the DSEL and bash not person immoderate different gross records, including khata extracts. As a result, galore schoolhouse lands person been encroached upon and cases person besides been registered successful the court. In addition, it has besides go hard to undertake schoolhouse improvement work, including gathering construction, without the indispensable documents.

The DSEL has been conducting authorities School and Educational Institutions Property Protection Campaign each twelvemonth since 2022-23.

The Deputy Commissioners had been instructed to cod the onshore records of the respective authorities schools and registry them successful the sanction of the school, and if the said lands were encroached upon, they should person the lands surveyed by the authorization acrophobic and region the encroachment.

However, truthful acold lone 25,339 superior and 3,437 precocious schools person been registered successful the sanction of the DSEL.

Shivamogga’s situation

Shivamogga, the in-charge territory of Minister for School Education Madhu Bangarappa, has the highest fig of pending registration of authorities schoolhouse properties, with 1,192 schools, followed by 1,124 successful Mandya, 1,063 schools successful Tumakuru, 958 successful Kalaburagi, and 877 successful Bengaluru South (earlier Ramanagara) district.

Umesh G. Gangavadi, State president of School Development and Monitoring Committee (SDMC), said, “Most of the properties of authorities schools person been encroached upon owed to the neglect of erstwhile governments. Many cases are pending successful court. A fewer years ago, determination was an incidental successful Kolar wherever immoderate backstage individuals took possession of a authorities schoolhouse and demolished it connected the orders of the court. If determination are nary records for the properties, it is besides hard to transportation retired improvement enactment successful specified schools. The authorities should implicit the pending spot registration of authorities schools connected a warfare footing. A petition volition beryllium made to the Chief Minister successful this regard.”