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Provision of schools in Railway Colonies for the children of schools run by them, the Railway Schools in these areas should also provide free

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| MC: No.1872001 | M.C. No.18/ 2001 |

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. E(W)2000/SC2/Master Circular/18 New Delhi, dated Bf 5.2001
To,
The General Managers,
All Indian Railways &
Production Units
and

Others as per the mailing list.

Subject:- Provision of schools in Railway Colonies for the children of

Railway employees .
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Reference Board’s letter No. E(W)90/SC-2/Master Circular dated 21.12.90 vide
which Master Circular No.18 on provision, of schools was issued which contained salient
features and instructions issued by Board in the matter from time to time. Since then, a
number of instructions on this subject have been issued in the form of Supplementary
Circulars to the Master Circular. It has now been decided by the Ministry of Railways to
consolidate these instructions and issue a revised and updated version of the Master
Circular as under, for information and guidance of all concerned.

2. Railway Schools:

2.1 Educational facilities provided on the Railways owe their origin to the necessity
for fulfilling the educational needs of the children of European and Anglo-Indian
employees who, in the last century, formed a considerable proportion of the
Railway employees posted at places where no European Schools were available.
With this end in view, Railway. schools were established at large Railway
establishments. Certain Railways established boarding schools at hill stations for
imparting education under European conditions. Other Railways assisted their
employees by undertaking to pay a portion of the tuition fees. The educational
facilities thus provided for Europeans were later extended to Anglo-Indians and

when the number of educated Indians began to increase in Railway Services, the .

Railways began to provide such facilities for the children of Indian employees at
places where adequate arrangements did not exist.

ff 22 Under article 346(3) - item 25 of list 3 Concurrent List (Seventh Schedule),
provision of educational facilities is primarily the responsibility of State
Govt./Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of Education).
However, Railways have provided educational facilities to the limited extent
within the constraint of available resources purely as a measure of staff welfare to

2.3

2.4

f

meet the needs of wards/children of Railway employees only at such places |
there is a concentration of Railway employees and the educational facilities

provided thereat by other agencies-both Government (State/Central) and private —

are found inadequate or are totally absent resulting in hardship or inconvenience
to them. g

Educational facilities provided by the Railways are generally confined to
primary/Middle and High/Higher Secondary Standards. The Railways do not
normally enter into the field of college and Technical education owing to their
extant policy keeping in view the far reaching administrative and financial
implications.4

Schools functioning in Railway colonies:

(a)

(b)

०)

569 Railway Educational Institutions comprising of 1 Degree College,
11 Inter Colleges, 39 Higher Secondary, 46 High, 28 Middle, 125 Primary
(fulfledged) and 319 ATP Schools are functioning on our system.

As a policy, Railway Ministry have been coordinating with the
Department of Education and had been successful in getting 68 Kendriya
Vidyalayas 6_in_Project Sect
Railway colonies/areas.

382 privately managed schools and number of State run schools are also
functioning in various Railway colonies to cater to the needs of children of
Railway employees.

3.1. It may be reiterated that provision of educational facilities is primarily the

responsibility of the State Govt./Ministry of Human Resource Development. .

Railway employees should, therefore, avail of the existing educational facilities
provided by the State Govt. etc. to the general public, While in the past, it could
be admitted that difficulties in this respect were being experienced by Railwa

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