Schools guiding the parents to purchase uniforms and books

Schools guiding the parents to purchase uniforms and books

Earlier CBSE had advised the schools to not to sell books and uniforms in the commercial shops located inside the school premises. But, schools now have found a new way to do the same but in a more clever way.A private school in Chandigarh held a parents-teacher meeting before the new academic session in which hints were dropped to the parents about the shops from where they should buy books and uniforms from their children.Munish Sharda, a parent who came to buy books for his son at Manchanda bookstore, Sector 19, Chandigarh, said, “My son is in Class 6, studying in a private school in Chandigarh. Every year, we are guided by the school staff to buy books and uniform from a particular shop.”The set of books we purchase has just one or two NCERT books while the remaining books are of private publishers. The uniform too we buy from the shop prescribed the school. We have never tried buying books and uniforms from other shops,” added Sharda.Another parent, Raminder Singh, whose son is in Class 8 in a private school, said, “When the new session begins, there is a huge rush outside these bookshops and uniform shops. Maybe one shop has a tie-up with at least five-six schools.”An owner of the private school said that schools get 15-20 percent commission from the sale of one set of books and uniform.Schools now have started attaching the card of the shops with the mark-sheets of the students from where parents should buy books and uniforms.Arvind Rana, president, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, Teachers Welfare Association, said, “As per the CBSE guidelines, schools can only open a tuck-shop inside the school just to sell small stationery items which is sometimes immediately required by the students. But it has been found that the books are still being sold in sets from prescribed shops by the schools and there is hardly any NCERT book. Rather, the private publisher books are being sold to students which are way expensive than the NCERT books.”

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