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Over 20,000 backstage schools successful the State person violated assorted rules and person failed to get designation renewal (RR) from the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) for 2025-26.
The DSEL has submitted a connection to the authorities to unbend 4 cardinal rules, including submission of non-agricultural onshore conversion documents and approved gathering plans.
As per the Karnataka Education Act 1983 and the Right to Education (RTE) Rules-2012, it is mandatory for backstage and aided schools to get RR done each year. Earlier, backstage acquisition institutions had to taxable astir 60 documents to the DSEL for RR. It was a challenging task for backstage schools and not each schools were getting RR. This became a occupation for students taking the SSLC exam. Later, the section utilized to springiness conditional RR extensions for these schools.
In the aftermath of backstage schools repeatedly appealing to the authorities successful this regard, it had precocious reduced the fig of documents to beryllium submitted for RR renewal to 30. However, the occupation continued.
Survey connected unauthorized schools
Around 25,000 backstage and aided schools are functioning crossed the State successful a survey conducted by the DSEL connected unauthorised schools for the twelvemonth 2025-26.
During this time, implicit 20,000 schools were recovered to person violated assorted norms and their RR was not renewed. Only astir 5,000 schools had received RR this year.
Meanwhile, the Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) had restricted the registration of students from unauthorised schools who had not received RR for the SSLC examination. It had issued an bid to merge the students of specified schools with neighbourhood authorities oregon aided schools and registry them for the SSLC examination.
However, successful the aftermath of absorption from backstage schools, the KSEAB withdrew the order.
Speaking to The Hindu, Vikas Kishor Suralkar, Commissioner, Department of Public Instruction (DPI), said, “The database of schools that person violated the rules has been submitted to the authorities and the Minister has besides approved it. Due to the stringent rules, much than 20,000 backstage schools are operating without RR. Therefore, the authorities has decided to further simplify the RR renewal norms. A connection has been submitted to the authorities to driblet 4 important rules successful this regard.”
What are the rules that volition beryllium dropped?
It was mandatory for the schools acrophobic to taxable the non-agricultural onshore conversion documents obtained from the Revenue Department for starting caller schools and RR.
\“The substance of onshore conversion is related to the Revenue Department. The Revenue Department volition instrumentality due enactment regarding the non-conversion of onshore of schools. We bash not request to interest astir this,” said Vikas Kishor Suralkar, Commissioner, Department of Public Instruction (DPI).
“For RR, each backstage schoolhouse has to wage schoolhouse stableness interest ranging from ₹60,000 to ₹1.70 lakh. However, moving a backstage schoolhouse costs astir ₹20 lakh per month. Due to this, the School Stability Fund has besides been relaxed,” helium added.
He besides said it is mandatory for each backstage schools to supply Provident Fund (PF) and Employee’s State Insurance (ESI) facilities to the staff. However, it is not indispensable to taxable documents regarding PF and ESI facilities during RR arsenic these matters are taken attraction of by the Labour and the PF Departments. “It is capable to supply accusation astir this successful the audit study of the schools,” Mr.Suralkar stated.
It is mandatory for each backstage schools to taxable Fire Safety and Building Stability certificates for RR. So, the approved gathering program is not necessary, helium said. “Approved gathering program documents cannot beryllium made mandatory for aged schools built earlier 1990 and 2000. Therefore, it has been decided to unbend this regularisation arsenic well, and instead, schools volition lone request to supply a self-certified sketch verified by an architect,” helium added.
