Last year, principals of all government and government-aided colleges in the state also received an official letter from the Director-General of Higher Education Department, Haryana.
Free education for girl students: Female students pursuing post-graduation in government colleges and government-aided facilities of Haryana with an annual family income of less than INR1.80 lakh will not be charged tuition fees, according to an official statement tweeted by the official Twitter account of CMO Haryana.
Last year, principals of all government and government-aided colleges in the state also received an official letter from the Director-General of Higher Education Department, Haryana. Meanwhile, the facility of free education in private schools to the children of the Economically Weaker Section by omitting Rule 134-A in the Haryana School Education Rules, 2003, has been withdrawn by the government of Haryana.
The move was welcomed by the private schools across the state after notification to this effect. They had been protesting against the facility on grounds that the parents were submitting fake income certificates to avail of the benefit. However, the Education Department maintained that the rule had to be dropped since it was at variance with the Right to Education Act (RTE) of the Central government.
“Rule 134-A was a provision under the Haryana School Education Rules, which existed prior to the RTE. The new Act provides for 25 per cent benefit to the EWS, while Rule 134-A provided the benefit of only 10 per cent. Since this was at variance with the Central Act, it
was dropped,” ACS (Higher Education) Anand Mohan Sharan, link officer for school education, said.
He said private schools would be reimbursed according to provisions in the Act that state that the Haryana Government would pay the private school according to its per child spending or school fee, whichever was less. This implies that the schools will now get reimbursement for the number of students studying as per rules.
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