About 10,000 self-financed schools in the state are feeling uneasy about the Telangana Education Commission’s (TGEC) Draft School Fee Regulation (DSFR), which recommends that 25% of seats be allocated for the state’s underprivileged.

Citing Telangana State’s financial circumstances, the Telangana Recognized School Managements Association (TRSMA) brought up the subject of being exempted from the burden of putting the TGEC recommendation into practice.

The RTE Act’s need of a 25% reservation for disadvantaged children is something that the TRSMA claimed it fully supports. Nonetheless, “We would like to draw attention to the state’s ongoing financial difficulties, which the Honorable Chief Minister has acknowledged.”

It also noted that “private schools, along with junior and degree colleges, are facing severe financial strain” as a result of the “Best Available School” scheme’s funding not being released for the previous three years. Additionally, Gurukul school administrations have been without rent reimbursement for a long time.

In response to these issues, the TRSMA, speaking for 10,000 budget schools, has requested that the State government refrain from enforcing the TGEC and RTE’s advice since it would subject schools to unpaid duties. Rather, it recommended that the State government provide students the required financial assistance immediately. According to TRSMA Karimnagar president K Sanjeeva Reddy, “this would empower families to choose the school best suited to their children’s needs, including corporate schools.” In the meanwhile, concerns were voiced about the TGEC policy views’ fairness and openness as well as its inability to adopt an inclusive and comprehensive approach to schooling.

For instance, the TGEC is in favor of converting all Telugu-medium schools to English-medium ones, but it says nothing about extending this suggestion to Urdu, Kannada, Marathi, and other state-run language schools. exposing one language to one standard while exposing other media schools to a different one.

Furthermore, by admitting more non-minority students, the TGEC is avoiding the problem of minority institutions that are breaking obligatory laws, even if the execution of the Right to Education (RTE) Act is advised and entails reserving 25% of seats in all private schools.

According to state school education department insiders who spoke to The Hans India, “a number of prestigious institutions have operated under a minority designation for many years. Nonetheless, a greater number of pupils were admitted than minority students. The current guidelines for awarding minority status are broken by this. Such educational institutions’ minority status may be revoked by the state government, according to a TGSED official.

Aside from that, it has been claimed that minority schools have been collecting contributions for admissions at a rate comparable to private schools. However, no authority, including the state, ever bargained with these institutions to require a certain amount of students from the state’s poorer and less fortunate areas to be admitted. Additionally, some minority colleges receive more contributions and fees from non-minority students than from minority students who have sought for minority institution classification in order to advance their study.