New Delhi, April 28 -- Days after stakeholders of city private schools flagged that the School Management Committees (SMCs) were not fully functioning, the Delhi Government has ordered the dissolution of all SMCs of government and government-aided schools in the city, with immediate effect. The government has instead directed that a school-level SMC Election Committee, headed by the concerned head of the school, to conduct elections to reconstitute a new SMC for their respective schools, as per the RTE Act.
An SMC is responsible for monitoring the school's functioning, identifying students and teachers' needs, and monitoring admissions, among other key tasks. It comprises 12 parent members, a school principal, a member teacher, an elected ...