American International School Chennai at Taramani. File
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The Madras High Court on Friday, April 28, granted interim relief to American International School Chennai (AISC) on a writ petition filed by it difficult the applicability of the Tamil Nadu Private Schools (Regulation) Act of 2018 which got here into pressure this yr pursuant to the framing of the statutory guidelines beneath the legislation.
Justices S.S. Sundar and P.B. Balaji ordered upkeep of established order after Senior Counsel Satish Parasaran instructed the court docket that the State legislation couldn’t be made relevant to the AISC because it was an establishment established on the premise of a bilateral settlement between the Government of India and the United States.
The counsel additionally mentioned the AISC had been performing at Taramani in Chennai since 1995 to cater to the tutorial wants of the youngsters of expatriates, particularly the American nationals residing in Chennai. At current, the college had a power of over 650 kids belonging to 24 completely different nationalities and 91% of them weren’t Indian nationals.
The Division Bench was additional knowledgeable that AISC had already filed a writ petition difficult the applicability of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act of 2009 in as far as it mandates filling up of 25% of seats in all personal colleges with kids belonging to weaker sections of society and that case was nonetheless pending.
Now that the State authorities had introduced into pressure a brand new legislation governing personal colleges, the AISC had give you the current petition contending that it couldn’t be made relevant to it.
