Overview

• State Minister Dada Bhuse told the Assembly that authorities have penalised 103 of the 420 unlicensed schools and closed 47 under the 2010 decision and 2012 regulations.
• Officials have filed 126 criminal cases against institutions operating without government approval to reinforce compliance.
• Of 1,057 grant and non-grant schools in the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation area, 218 had lapsed RTE renewals in 2022, with 211 now granted certificates and seven closed.
• The government is reviewing a proposal from the School Education Commissioner to shut 85 more unauthorised schools in the BMC jurisdiction.
• The newly formed Special Investigation Team will investigate illegal inclusion of names as teaching and non-teaching staff in the department’s dashboard.