State lays norms for private school grants

Updated on: Friday, October 14, 2011

There will now be an added impetus for private schools to ensure quality education. For, retaining a healthy pass percentage and ensuring a high number of first-class pass outs would increase a school’s chances of availing grants.

The state cabinet decided parameters for eligibility for grants to schools that were earlier classified in the “permanently unaided” category. More than 4,000 primary and secondary schools are in line for grants. On a scale of 1 to 100, quality of education will get 50 marks. Officials said quality will be judged on parameters such as student enrollment and dropout ratio, teacher-student ratio and the number of students to have secured a first class. A school must get at least 37.5 marks (75%) to be in the race.

Meanwhile, a proposal for setting a maximum income limit of Rs 2 lakh annually for socially and economically backward students in professional courses to claim reimbursements of education fee, was withdrawn.

State lays norms for private school grants

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