{"id":42256,"date":"2017-02-26T18:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T13:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=42256"},"modified":"2017-02-26T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T13:20:55","slug":"rss-affiliated-schools-register-an-increase-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=42256","title":{"rendered":"RSS-affiliated schools register an increase of 23.87 % in enrollment | The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThough West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been at loggerheads with the BJP-led NDA government over demonetisation and the crackdown on MPs over the chit fund scams, the State government has ensured that more than a dozen Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-run schools have been granted affiliation in the last year.
\nThese schools are run by the Vivekananda Vidyavikash Parishad (VVP) with a objective of creating \u201cHindu mindset\u201d among the students.
\nThe VVP is the Bengal chapter of the Vidya Bharti Akhil Bhartiya Siksha Sansthan, an RSS-affiliated organisation. The organisation\u2019s website clearly states that its primary objective is to establish an education system which will create a generation of \u201cyouths with a Hindu mindset.\u201d
\n\u201cOur aim is to develop an ideal education system which will create a generation of youths who will have Hindu mindset along with well developed spiritual outlook,\u201d states the website of VVP.
\nSpeaking to The Hindu, <\/em>the organisational secretary of the VPP, Tarak Das Sarkar, an RSS pracharak, said, \u201cAll of our schools received State government affiliation after 2011 (when TMC came to power in Bengal).\u201d
\nMr Sarkar was quick to stress that, \u201cWe have followed due procedures to get the affiliations. There is no politics behind it.\u201d
\nIn 2016 while eight schools (upto class VIII) and two schools (upto class X) run by the VVP have been given permanent affiliation by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE), 15 primary schools were issued provisional affiliation by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education. As a result these schools will now be able to receive the grants under the Centre\u2019s Sarva Siksha Abhiyan scheme as well as facilities such as free text books and mid day meal from the WBBSE. They would also be eligible for no objection certificates from the State\u2019s Education Department for being upgraded to Secondary Schools under the WBBSE. However, as per the provisions of the affiliation these schools will not get any financial aid from the State government.
\nAccording to VVP authorities, the organisation currently runs 326 schools in Bengal up from 314 in 2015. As on December 2016, the number of students at these schools stood at 74,996, an increase of 23.87 % since 2015, VPP authorities said. They also said the schools which recently got government affiliation are located in the districts of Paschim Medinipur, Murshidabad, Jalpaiguri, Murshidabad, North Dinajpur and Cooch Behar.<\/p>\n

Even as State BJP president Dilip Ghosh criticised the TMC government for \u201cfailing to create proper education infrastructure\u201d in Bengal, he welcomed the development as a \u201cpositive step.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they (TMC government) have taken a positive step in giving affiliation to these schools. Since the State government has failed to improve the standard of education in Bengal, they are left with no choice but to give affiliation to these schools,\u201d Mr. Ghosh said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been at loggerheads with the BJP-led NDA government over demonetisation and the crackdown on MPs over the chit fund scams, the State government has ensured that more than a dozen Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-run schools have been granted affiliation in the last year. These schools are run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}