The Underworld Extortion is
passe! Welcome to the “Open Extortion by Convent School”! The indirect threat
to Students by the School Authorities is: If your parents don’t pay Rs.
10,000/- by 10th January 2014, you will not be allowed to enter your
classrooms!
Students of SSC (Xth
class) are worried and under stress that by not paying Rs 10,000/- they would
not get their School Leaving Certificates on passing their examination.
So one wonders, how can a Convent
School extort money so openly with threats to students & their parents? And
one wonders, why the parents should pay the money to buy a Government owned
land LEASED to Gloria Convent High School, Byculla for 99 years, on which the
school was built? Will the parents of the 1900 students own the land after they
pay Rs.10,000/- totalling to 1.90 Crores?
On 16th December 2013,
parents were called in for a meeting and they were issued the “threat” in the
form of One-Sided Decision of the School Management of Gloria Convent High School,
Byculla, Mumbai. The parents are furious by the one sided adamant decision of
the school management that each student’s parents has to shell out Rs. 10,000/-
for buying the land on which the school building stands. The reason, government
land lease of 99 years has expired sometime in 2012.
Parents were not aware about the land
lease till it was announced on the 16th of December 2013 by a school
supervisor and a PTA member at a parents’ gathering. When parents requested to see the government order on the matter, it
was refused and advised to refer media report. As per the management, the
option given by the government is that either buy the land at the cost of Rs. 2
Crore or pay rent of Rs. 4 Lakh for a block of 5 years. Management is forcing 1900
students’ parents to shell out Rs. 10,000/- by 10th of January 2014,
so as to buy the land, but is not considering the other option of paying the
rent, which the school management can very well afford to pay on their own. The
reasoning stated is that the property cost is increasing by each passing day /
year, hence the School Management Board wants to buy and own. The management is
not giving any thoughts to pay government Rs. 4 Lakh for 5 years’ rent, even
after a strong protest by all the parents.
When the lease of the land was on
the verge of expiry by 2012, why the School Management didn’t take any concrete
steps to save themselves? Not a single proactive measures were taken and they
sat on the case till they are in neck deep in their self-created trouble. Even
after receipt of government’s notice, the parents were not informed about the
backdoor developments taking place and out of a sudden, the easiest method the
School Management found was to issue threat to students’ parents and extort Rs.
10,000/- each and give them no choice. The idiotic example given at the meeting
is that “if a patient is taken suddenly ill and is in ICU”, what would they do?
Parents are not ready to believe this argument and are not willing to buy the
land and opined that why should they pay
from their pockets and make the School Management to own the land? Why should
the future generations of students and their parents be at the mercy of such an
extortionist?
The School is already charging
the SSC students Rs. 1,500/- as examination fees instead of Rs 500/-. Even as
per the norms, a receipt should be issued of the amount received but the
students are given no receipt because of this corrupt practice. Is this how the
Convent Educational Institute is imparting knowledge and teaching their
students of Modern Day Extortion and Corrupt Practice?
Who will reign such Reputed
Extortionists of the Society? Who is the brainchild behind such Open Extortion
by Gloria Convent High School, Byculla, Mumbai? Will the State Government, the
Chief Minister of Maharashtra and the Education Minister of the Country take
some immediate steps to STOP such EXTORTION by the School Management?
THE BLOG EFFECT:
MUMBAI MIRROR: 11th January 2014
THE BLOG EFFECT:
MUMBAI MIRROR: 11th January 2014
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