India, Sept. 27 -- The state school education department on Friday decided to restructure the functioning of private aided schools by merging the existing committees into five key bodies.

The decision comes after long-standing demands from teachers' organisations, who argued that frequent committee meetings and administrative responsibilities were consuming valuable teaching time.

Until recently, 17 different committees were active in private-aided schools, often leading to various kinds of work and unnecessary strain on teachers. As per the new government resolution, these committees will now be consolidated into five.

A similar reform had already been implemented in government and local self-government schools in April this year, whe...