Most of the schools have violated regulations by changing location without approval, while others started admissions following aggressive advertisements even before getting affiliation with the Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB).
A monitoring team on Sunday raided a school named Kamana International Higher Secondary School in Sukedhara, which has not acquired affiliation from the HSEB, and confiscated the receipts of admission from there. Meanwhile, Glacier Higher Secondary School, Shantinagar, which was told by HSEB officials to stop admission process, has sent an apology letter to HSEB for ´unknowingly committing mistakes´ and also asked the HSEB to forward the process of affiliation.
The HSEB last week ordered two newly established higher secondary schools, Glacier and Sourya, to stop admission and public advertisement stating that they had yet not been granted affiliation.
"We are probing the cases. We have substantial basis for investigation," said under-secretary of HSEB Jit Bahadur KC. "Once their wrongdoing is proven, they will have to stop admission, or in case of unapproved relocation, they will have to relocate themselves to their approved base, or,otherwise, face cancellation of affiliation."
According to KC, 30 schools have been identified as not abiding by the HSEB regulations. A monitoring beyond the valley through HSEB´s seven district offices is expected to identify more such violators.
This is the first time that HSEB, which has around 2,000 higher secondary schools across the nation under its affiliation, has embarked on "real monitoring". Until last year, the board has not conducted such monitoring.
"If they still refuse to abide, we will eventually take action against the schools by denying registration to their enrolled students," KC said. "Thereafter, the responsibility of the students´ future will be all theirs."
The future of thousands of students will be at risk if the schools do not comply with the HSEB directives.
According to HSEB, besides investigating 30 schools, it is tallying its location permission to that approved by District Education Office (DEO). Schools that run +2 programs take permission only from DEO while shifting to another place, say officials. However, they are also required to take permission from the HSEB.
A trend of shifting to ´suitable and convenient places´ without permission is a growing trend among the higher secondary schools of the valley. After a certain level of growth, the schools in urban areas tend to shift their +2 faculties to more visible places for capturing a bigger market segment. A HSEB official said some very popular schools are also doing this, though he refused to name them.
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