Maharashtra: Parents lock school gate after quarrel over students’ transfer certificates | Education

Angry parents closed the main gate of a Zilla Parishad school in Latur district of Maharashtra to protest against the inaction of the former principal for allegedly transferring 17 student students to other schools without informing their guardians.

The protest lasted for about two hours on Wednesday, after which the block’s education superintendent announced that the accused would be suspended from his teaching job and a departmental inquiry would be conducted into the matter.

The parents then stopped their protest. The school runs from grade 1 to 10.

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When some parents went to the school to collect their daughters’ transfer certificates recently, they were informed that the transfer certificates had already been accepted, the official said.

This prompted parents to bring the matter to the attention of the school committee and gram panchayat.

An investigation was conducted and it was found that the guardians of the children of 17 students were transferred to other schools without prior consent or agreement with the parents, the official said.

In this regard, the gram panchayat and the school committee have asked the Zilla Parishad authorities to initiate an inquiry into the actions of the former principal.

The parents, however, claimed that no action was taken and closed the school gate in protest.

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