Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit said it was not fair to expect schools to take in children from Economically weaker sections(EWS) when a cap on their fees and charges had also been imposed.
Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit on Wednesday said it was not fair to expect schools to take in children from Economically weaker sections(EWS) when a cap on their fees and charges had also been imposed.
"One unfortunate things is to put a cap on their (private schools) charges. Now, that is also not fair, because remember that primary schools have to meet their expenditures," Dikshit said.
She said while government could meet expenditure of its schools, it was not easy for the private ones.
"Telling private schools to cap this (charges) and take so many percentage of EWS, I think we are not being realistic. We are being backward-looking rather than forward-looking," Dikshit said.
Dikshit, who was addressing a gathering at the Annual General meeting of CII, said while the Right to Education prescribed that schools should take a certain percentage of EWS students at present there was a lot of confusion.
Dikshit said that in hospitals also, the poor should get proper treatment while those who can afford are charged.
"The same is the case with hospitals. I think we also need to look into ourselves to see what you can do, to see that the poorer people are able to get treated in hospitals and to charge those who can afford," she said.
"I know it is easier said than done but it has to be done in both health and education," she added.
Dikshit said her government had been trying to set up eight more government schools but clearances from bodies like DDA and DUAC were hard to come by.
Though the Delhi CM admitted school education in the country was not up to the mark, she highlighted that the pass percentage of Delhi government schools had improved from a 32% to 97-98% in the past few years.
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