Daijiworld Media Network - Ramanagara (SP)

Ramanagara, Aug 21: It is gathered that Bengaluru rural MP, D K Suresh, has asked schools in the constituency to submit full details of the family members of the students seeking admission, before admitting them. Even though this is surprising, the schools in Ramanagara district are faced with the need to furnish these details to the MP.

So far, the documents needed for admission were names of parents, as well as caste - religion certificate. However, Suresh is learnt to have demanded 23 types of information including telephone numbers of the parents. No one knows why the MP needs these details.

Over 80,000 student study in the private and government schools in the district and details of parents and their telephone numbers are available with the department of public instruction. But a surprising letter received from the MP seeking the said details has drawn flak from the teachers and the parents. 

The department of public instruction officials says that the department does not know much about this issue and that they have been providing the information sought by the MP. Ramangara deputy director of public instruction, Gangamade Gowda, says that there are no government instructions on the issue but the department has been providing the details sought by the MP. For this, some additional information has to be collected from the parents, he disclosed.

Private schools say that collecting information about the entire family is not as per rules, and point out that the MP wants to collect information anonymously which is illegal. The fact that teachers have been collecting private details of students without any government orders is illegal, some social websites have pointed out while objecting to the initiatives undertaken by D K Suresh. In some schools, the students are handed over letters along with forms to fill up but these letters are neither signed nor sealed, it has been pointed out.