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The Director of Education, which collaborated with Goa State Infrastructure Development GSID, has started it work to reconstruct the school facilities in the state. According to reports published in the state dailies, GSID has designed interactive classrooms and computer rooms for schools in Goa. It may worth be mentioning here that education infrastructure throughout India needs to be reconstructed and new equipments need to be installed to advance the educational development in the country.

As per the model designed for the schools, pupils will now be facing each other instead of the traditional classroom arrangement of the seats. Classrooms have been designed in such a way that the seating arrangement would be fashioned in a circular design, allowing students to have a visual contact over each other as well the teacher.

The managing Director of SHEMFORD Group of Schools, Mr. Amol Arora has appreciated the idea of modernizing the present day schools. Mr. Arora has participated in a number of workshops that were aimed at providing better means of education in the country.

A comparison between the popular schools in the West and the schools in India reveals that educational infrastructure here is still at the lagging end. As news schools and institutions are being equipped with the necessary equipments and provisions, we hope that the quality of education will improve over the course of time. However, all concerned agencies must be obliged to share the responsibility.

As education experts wait in anticipation for the results of Right to Education bill, preschools may pay heed to their services and be ready for additional responsibilities. Right now there is a lot of debate on reforming the education system and to endorse the best practices.

Arguments over school admissions have received the maximum attention. It is believed that thief the bill makes it all through the process, students from class I may have to appear for entrance tests to get admission in a school.

If children from class I have to appear in the test, somebody has to prepare them for the test. That is where preschools come in handy. Therefore, additional responsibilities will have to be shared by the parents and the preschools that train and prepare children to face interviews and tests.

The business for school and education in general has seen a monumental increase in India. The present scenario is witnessing a never-seen-before proportion of investments from private corporates and foreign investment firms. The business for school in India has gone beyond the realm for just boarding schools or international schools. Now, many city-based (10+2) schools are being financed by a number of corporates and have become an integral part of the Indian higher education. This change has come about with the government lifting many hurdles that used to hinder foreign investments. However, currently, there are still some legal issues that inhibit the business for schools from expanding across the nation..

For example, it is still not possible for the non-profit companies that are covered under Article 25 of CRA — Companies Registration Act, i.e. including industry associations from setting up institutions or get a recognised university prominence/recognition from the UGC — University Grants Commission. By adhering to such policies, business for schools is being hampered which eventually limits the spread of quality educational institutions in the country..

Limitations to Business for Schools in India

There are still many reservations towards the expansion of business for schools in India regionally, i.e. some of these limitations are state-based and some of the restrictions have been levied by the central government itself. For example, educational institutions can be set-up in India only by recognised trusts/societies/charitable companies. However, the profits earned from such business from schools can’t be diverted outside the organization and have to be reinvested to a certain extent..

Now, these sorts of laws only hamper business for schools from further developing. This has a two-pronged negative affect on the education business scenario in India..

This sort of restriction hinders the educational institutes from spreading out and instead encourages the investors to delve into falsified accounting methods to spread out their profits from the established institution. Further, such policies discourage foreign investments. There are some states that are working towards answering this issue. For example, the state of Maharashtra is making sure that it encourages the business for school in their urban and semi-urban centres as it plans to limit the application of the above-mentioned clause. This would mean that the non-profit, Section 25 companies would be allowed to set-up educational institutions in India. This clause alteration still doesn’t affect the primary education sphere.