PM urged not to close Central School

Tribune News Service

Haridwar, March 18

The Parents and Teachers Association of BHEL has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately intervene and provide financial grants so that Central School at BHEL is not shut, as admission to Class I in the school has been stopped from the next academic session.

A protest was staged under the aegis of the Akhil Bharatiya Kendriya Vidyalaya Shikshak Sangh and the Parents Association Kendriya Vidyalaya, BHEL, Sector 4, outside the school gate here today.

 The association office-bearers also forwarded a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Union Human Resource Ministry and the Central School Organisation, New Delhi,  through the District Magistrate’s office, urging them for continuation of Central School at BHEL here.

Harendra Singh from the parents association said hundreds of students are studying in the school that is the lone central educational institution in the district.

He said more than 1,700 students are studying at Kendriya Vidyalaya, BHEL, and if it was closed, they would find it difficult to get admission to other schools.

Former legislator Ambrish Kumar said it was ironical that on the one hand the Central government had announced opening of 50 new central schools in the country, on the other it was closing Central School at BHEL.

Mayor Manoj Garg said he would take up the issue with new Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, as there is no other Kendriya Vidyalaya in Haridwar where quality and affordable education could be provided.

BHEL Human Resource Department official SK Aggarwal said due to financial constraints, the BHEL Education Management Board, which runs all educational schools in the BHEL township, had written to the Central School Organisation expressing its inability in continuing with the academic session at BHEL Central School, Sector 4, from the next academic session.

Notably, the BHEL Education Management Board had last year closed Vidya Mandir School, Sector 1, for the same reasons.