against the Central and state governments for perpetuating abysmal standards of teaching in government schools, the Supreme Court has approved inspector raj in well-managed private schools. Of course the Supreme Court judgement was quite right in upholding the Delhi high court’s orders in the Social Jurist Case which was a contractual matter. But even in this case the schools should have been given an option to pay the current value of the land allotted to them in lieu of admitting poor children on freeships (scholarships)." Regrettably the court seems unaware of the ground reality that government officials and functionaries steeped in a time-hallowed tradition of venality are unlikely to provide the fair and just regulation of private schools mandated by the apex court. Comments from school managements Comments Mohina Dhar principal of the four-star CBSE-affiliated Amity International School, Delhi which has 3,000 students on its muster roll and runs the parallel Amitasha afternoon school for poor and under-privileged
