AGARTALA, June 26 (TIWN): Amid Privatization, 25% reservation for poor students in private schools, Tripura Govt yet to focus on the serious issue of money-centric, private tuition businesses in private schools causing distress for a section of guardians.Tripura Govt could not impose any strict law of fixing teachers’ salaries in private schools which is bounding the teachers to continue private tuitions and many schools in Tripura are paying teachers below 10,000. Almost all private schools in Tripura are found engaged in this business causing double burden for the guardians. “Double Burden” because on the one side, guardians are bearing schools fees and on the other side, private tuition fees every month. Many CBSE schools’ education quality is 10% worse than even TBSE controlled Govt schools because the exams in those schools go on suggestion based question-papers.One of the burning issues of the Education system in Tripura is the private tuition business leading mass sufferings everyday.

Even though private tuition were abandoned before many years by govt of Tripura and each private school has instructed schools teachers officially not to be involved in home-teaching to own school’s children but instructions are for namesake across the state.

The guardians indeed bearing triple expenses : 1) School fees, 2) School teachers frees in private tuition in batches, 3) Extra tutor for ‘quality education’.

At the level of Class-6, Class-7 the teachers take 700 rupees from each student. At upper classes the amount crosses thousand. 

In this condition guardians are helpless as there is no control of the govt on those private institutions.

School authorities indirectly motivate such practices are teachers in those schools are not paid according to any govt rules and regulations.

Sometimes teachers are paid only Rs. 2000 to Rs. 3000 at the nursery level led the teachers to involve in private tuition.

But ultimately the victims are none other than the guardians and the students. Moreover, it is also tough for a child to run after so many tutors after whole days school hours. 

Guardians have demanded Education Dept’s monitoring in this critical problem.

In Govt undertaken schools also such Education business especially from Class-9 to 12 continues with the subject teachers controlling over the marking a student as “Pass” or “Fail” in their own "skilled" subjects.