After giving grants, now Govt asks Nagpur schools to return amount

By Vikas Vaidya

Maharashtra Government has asked 12 schools in Nagpur to return the money given as grant. The schools were earlier considered eligible to receive the grants, but subsequently Government felt that the approval process was flawed. Though the exact amount due from each school is not known, the total recovery is pegged at Rs 3.5 crore.
Long back Government had decided to sanction new schools provided they would not take grant. Accordingly they were given status of permanent un-aided. After the clear stand of Government, schools still started demanding the grants. Finally it was decided that the grant would be given to the schools, if they should fulfill the conditions put by Government. The grants were to be given part by part— 20 per cent in one year, 40 per cent afterwards, 60 per cent later. This way schools were supposed to get 100 per cent grant. But Government took a U-turn and in September, 2016, it decided to give only 20 per cent grant to these schools.
Last year, means in 2017 Government suddenly noticed that some schools receiving grants were actually not eligible at all and it issued notices to schools asking them to return the amount given as grant. Unfortunately, Nagpur’s 12 schools got the notices that shocked the school managements and teachers too. The teachers of some schools out of these 12 are not getting salaries for the last 8 months.
The notice sent by Education department to these schools points out that Government had approved the schools to be eligible to receive grant of Rs 20 crore. But when Government checked from its side, it found that the schools were not eligible for the same so the amount should be returned to Government. The details of the recovery from each school is not available with ‘The Hitavada’.
The schools approached High Court and Adv Anand Parchure appearing from some of the schools argued that without giving hearing to the schools, the Government issued the notices. High Court asked education department to give hearing to the schools as a natural justice. Following the Court order, Deputy Director of Education, Nagpur region Anil Pardhi conducted the hearing and is expected to submit his report to the department.
School managements found the act of Government as ridiculous. Government only approved grants to the schools, now it itself saying that the schools should not have received grant.
One officer on condition of anonymity said that when Government gives grant it makes clear that providing grant is a voluntary action. It means that Government would decide whether it would provide grants to schools, even though eligible, or not. All said and done but now ball has landed in the court of Anil Pardhi on whose report Government would decide whether to recover the amount or not.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

foreign returned MBBS students not to be admitted in PG in State quota

· By Vikas Vaidya Though Medical Council of India (MCI) has relaxed the rule of giving Eligibility Certificate for the students wanting to study in foreign countries, the troubles have not ended so far. Now Maharashtra Government has refused to give admission in the State quota of Post Graduate intake. Due to severe shortage of MBBS seats in the country, most of the Indian students are opting for medical colleges in China, Russia, Central America, the Philippines among others every year. Getting the degree in these countries is relatively cheaper. A student can complete MBBS abroad in less than Rs 30 lakh. In the state, the student has to pay, apart from the fee, a donation of up to Rs 80 lakh to get a seat in management quota. All this totals to Rs 1.5 crore. Earliers these students had to obtain eligibility certificate from MCI. This data has been obtained from Board of Intermediate Education to verify the age and qualifications for doing MBBS in foreign countries. Now MCI has
Read more

Scrub Typhus's first caseconfirmed from Central India

Image
    By Vikas Vaidya WHEN 45 year-old Kusum Wankhede of Kolhu village, Katol tehsil came to Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH), nobody thought that her case would throw a light on new disease as far as medical fraternity of Central India is concerned. She had multi-organ dysfunction with involvement of liver, kidneys, lungs and meningitis and her platelets were reduced. Malaria and Dengue were suspected and ruled out by specific blood tests. Scrub Typhus was suspected when careful examination revealed a black mark (left by mite’s bite) called eschar was noticed over the patient’s right side of the chest. The eschar, which occurs at the site where the mite bites is the single most clinical diagnostic clue. Dr Prashant Joshi, Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, IGGMCH checked her and identified that she was suffering from Scrub Typhus, a new disease in human. It was identified earlier in other parts of the countr
Read more

Dr Vilas Dangre advises "Don’t humiliate yourself by demanding to practice allopathy"

Image
By Vikas Vaidya Dr Vilas Dangre, a leading Homoeopath and Bhishmacharya in the field of Homoeopathy on Sunday warned Homoeopaths not to lower down their status by demanding to practice allopathy. The Maharashtra branch of Homoeopathic Medical Association of India (HMAI) a national organisation has conducted a scientific seminar for Homoeopathic doctors and students on diseases of children named ‘Pediatric prescribing’ on Sunday at Ahilyadevi Sabhgruha, Dhantoli. Mayor Anil Sole was chief guest,  leading Homoeopath of Mumbai Dr Parinaz Humranwala was guest of honour. Dr Vilas Dangre presided over the function. Dr Rajan Kalpande, President Maharashtra HMAI, Dr Murlidhar Idole, Secretary were seated on the dais. Dr Dangre said, “By demanding that allopathy practice should be allowed, we, the Homoeopaths are bringing down our level. The Homoeopathy is based on full scientific research. The remedies of all diseases are in Homoeopathy. I shall not object if we are demand
Read more