District Education Office of Bajura has decided to provide Rs 200 to every student during admission or readmission into government run schools. This incentive scheme pitched as ‘motivation allowance’ by the DEO aims to bring hundred percent school aged children to school, the office stated.
“Despite implementing free education policy several years back, all school aged children don’t go to school. Parents lament that though education is free they have to spend for dresses and several other things when admitting or readmitting their wards. We feel the 200 rupees will encourage them. From this year, we are going to hand over Rs 200 to each student who are admitted in government run schools for the first time or readmitted,” said the district’s education officer, Nagendra Prasad Regmi. “Along with that we will ensure that none of the state run schools in the district raise funds from parents under any headings. Free education must be absolutely free,” he stressed.
Generally, state owned schools charge certain amount to students under the head of ‘support’. Lack of sufficient teachers’ quota and other factors, they claim, force them to seek such support. Some schools even charge examinations fees. Regmi stated that henceforth such activities would be strictly checked.
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