Divisional Commissioner instructs DPI of school education to take action against 2 CBSE Schools

Updated on: Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Two CBSE schools stand to lose their affiliation after they failed to submit details of the vehicles plying their students past the deadline given by the government. The divisional commissioner on Monday instructed the directorate of public instructions (DPI) of the school education department to take action against the schools.

Theodosian School and Mount Carmel Convent School stand to lose their no-objection certificate (NOC) and also their affiliation to the CBSE.

Joint director Bhopal division, public instructions, P R Tiwari said, "Even after issuing notices to the schools, seven prominent schools of the city did not reply giving information about their vehicles including school buses and vans.

After this till Friday, five of the schools informed the DPI about their vehicles which is close to 200 school vans.

The two schools stand to lose their NOC for which action will be taken soon."

"A copy of the same will be provided to the CBSE as well to cancel their affiliation," he added.

On Monday, five of the school principals were called for a meeting with the divisional commissioner and to explain why they didn't reply to the notices.

Deputy commissioner Urmila Shukla said, "Five school representatives gave information of 200 school vans to the divisional commissioner.

They cited late responses to the notices as not owning the vehicles and maintaining them. The schools said that after getting the notices they spoke to the students and their parents and collated the information."

P R Tiwari also informed that after issuing notices to 60 schools in September, 58 of them have replied till date. "The 58 schools have about 1137 school vans. The data would be collated within two days and the list would be sent to the regional transport officer (RTO) for initiating action against the same," he said.

In the on-going action being taken against the school van owners, 20 school vans were issued notices for registration suspension on Tuesday.

In the last four days, 95 school vans have been issued notices for taking permit of their vehicles and also for ensuring the fitness within seven days, informed RTO M L Soni.

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