Schools and Colleges are sacred Temples of learning imparting knowledge and grooming students to be future pillars of our nation.
Sadly over the last few years running these educational institutions is turning into a business enterprise with all and sundry vying to seize it as a golden goose. Centers of learning cannot be reduced to dens of business opportunities. The Rosary High School at Miramar, the ownership of which has been taken over by Tony Rodrigues who himself is incapable of reading and writing is a glaring example as to how an educational institution has been usurped over as a business venture. The absolutely uneducated Tony Rodrigues might have had a good innings as a politician and even became the Mayor of Panaji but managing a school properly is all together a different ball game. A mission impossible without at least the basic academic qualifications. Tony Rodrigues after buying over the Rosary High School is now the Chairman of Executive Committee of the Rosary Education Society. Ironically the academically totally blank Tony Rodrigues is also the Chairman of the Rosary High School Managing Committee. How can someone who does not know to read and write run a school? Infact the law should require that those managing schools possess at least some basic educational qualifications. Section 21 of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 (RTE), mandates the formation of School Management Committee (SMC) to monitor the working of the school, prepare and recommend school development plan, monitor the utilization of the grants received from the government. Implementation of the RTE directives ought to be examined and especially funds utilization has to be scrutinized to ensure that those heading the Educational institutions have not pocketed funds meant for the students and welfare of education. There needs to be a detailed inquiry into the financial and other irregularities at the Rosary High School now being mismanaged as a business cum family undertaking. No school or college can be allowed to illegally extort unlawful donations from parents. It is incumbent upon the Government to ensure that all educational institutions issue a receipt for every paisa collected from students and parents. The parents should flatly refuse to pay money under the table for which no receipts are being issued. It should be Zero Tolerance to Corruption at the door step of every educational institution. Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.com