The Allahabad High Court has issued strict orders that the children of government employees should study only at government schools.
A Public Interest Litigation was filed at the Allahabad High Court
stating that in Uttar Pradesh, led by its Samajwadi party Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav, the government-run schools do not have sufficient
teachers. The officials were not taking any steps to improve the
standard of education in these schools and infrastructure was poor.
After hearing the arguments, Justice Sudhir Agarwal issued an order, excerpts of which are provided below:
All the government employees shall enroll their children only at
government-run schools. The rule is applicable also to the
representatives of the people, and the employees of the justice
department. The state government can impose penalties to stop them from
admitting their children to private schools.
The employees can be made to pay as penalty the sum that they had paid
as fees to the private schools. The revenue thus generated can be added
to the state exchequer. The Chief Secretary of the state was given six
months to submit a report on this reform.
Source: http://www.cgstaffportal.in/
