Jammu, Mar 18: Minister for School Education Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed today said the government would soon bring a legislation to regulate private schools in the state.
 The minister listed several measures “being taken by the government to regulate the private educational institutions including their fee and wage structure.”
 He said it had been made mandatory on such institutions to admit 20 to 25 percent students belonging to below poverty line families.
 Replying to the supplimentaries on a question by Rafi Ahmad Mir, the Minister said that the Government has come up with a clear policy for establishing reasonable fee structure for private schools.
 He said the wages being given to the teaching staff are also being governed by the Wage Board.
 He said to enforce Wage Board scales, the schools have been asked to pay the salary by cheques.
 He also gave details of the set norms for opening private schools of various levels.
 Nazir Gurezi, Nizam-ud-Din Bhat, M. Y. Tarigami, Harshdev Singh and Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan raised supplementaries on the question.

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