Haryana schools question parents' income certificate

Ravinder Saini

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Tribune News Service

Mahendragarh, December 25

The Progressive Private Schools’ Association, a group of CBSE schools, has raised questions over the “authenticity” of income certificates being used to get admissions under the EWS quota. The association even offered double salary for jobs in schools to those parents whose annual income was less than Rs 1 lakh and wanted to get their wards enrolled in private schools.

“Many parents are furnishing income certificates of Rs 30,000 to Rs 1 lakh per annum for the sake of admission of their wards under the Rule 134A. All school owners are ready to pay them double the amount shown in their income certificates, if they work in the schools as per their qualifications,” tweeted Anil Kaushik, president of the association.

He maintained that income certificates submitted by the parents to get their children enrolled in private schools under the Rule 134A should be re-verified by the district authorities as many of them managed to get the documents made despite having good monetary conditions.

“After apprising the district education authorities of some such cases, we had demanded to get such certificates verified, but the officers washed their hand offs claiming that the certificate is issued by the tehsildar and they have no authority to verify these,” said Kaushik.

Sunil Dutt, DEO, Mahendragarh, said income certificates were made by the tehsildar hence the Education Department had nothing to do with it.