Corporation pulled up for flaws in Chennai schools


Finding several shortcomings in safety and infrastructure aspects in Chennai Schools, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has charged the Chennai Corporation with flouting norms, thereby failing to ensure the safety of the schoolchildren.

The CAG report tabled in the Assembly (for the year ending March 2010), in its performance review of 281 schools run by the Chennai Corporation between 2005-09, has revealed that none of the schools had obtained licence from competent authority for buildings under the Tamil Nadu Public Buildings (Licensing) Act, 1965, which stipulates that public buildings like schools should be used only under a valid licence for structural stability. The government's argument that they were government buildings and so exempted from such licence was not tenable as the Act clearly stipulates the schools, frequented by public, had to be certified by competent authority, the CAG report said.....Read More

 

Source: The Hindu


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