KUSMA a State-Level Organisation was established in 1984 with the avowed objective of protecting the autonomous character of voluntary agencies running schools not funded by the State as unequivocally emphasized by the recent landmark judgement of the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court and guiding them to make available education of optimum quality at affordable cost to the children of middle and lower middle class parents and protectig the managements from the onslaughts of the bureaucracy at the lower rung of the hierarchy.

It represents the interests and asprations over 4000 unaided schools providing educational facilities to over 25 lakh children. Their employment potential can be gauged from the fact that these schools are manned by over one lakh teachers and non-teaching staff. KUSMA is exerting moral pressure on members to progressively improve the service conditions of employees which include Employees Provident Fund, medical leave and retirement benefits. Its priority has been to assist managements to improve the quality of teaching imparted in schools, to bring down drop out percentage to zero-level and make schooling for children an enriching and enjoyable experience and not an unbearable torture and drudgery. To achive this objective, it has been organizing guidance courses, workshops and group discussion for teachers to help them to hone their skills and broaden their outlook. Our members have shown keen interest in all these activities and have extended their unflinching support.

To enlighten managements about their pious obligations, their rights and responsibilities and reminding them about their first priority of improving infrastructural facilities in their schools like suitable school buildings with well-ventilated and spacious class rooms, properly maintained toilet facilities, lunch-space, lung-space and also furniture, computer and general laboratory facilities, library and audio visual equipment and employing appropriately trained teachers, selecting them purely on the basis of merit and exposing them to periodical inservice guidence, we have been conducting biennial Conferences and Seminars and felloship-meetings. Incidental benefits of such colloquia is the cultivation of cameraderie among members, strenthening of rapport between them and eschewing of unhealthy competition. We are also publishing an in-house quarterly news-letter for dissemination of our considered views and stand on educational issues, State policies as enunciated by Goverment Orders, diktats and Departmental Notifications, members reactions responses, news about happenings of significance in schools and resolutions passed at the Executive Committe meetings.

True, this association has been engaged in a series of legal battles questioning certain executive and Goverment Orders and provisions of certain act which are, in the openion of the Association, unconstitutional or infringe the legitimate rights of managements and act as stumbling blocks.

We are confident that with the co-operation and moral support of the Hon'ble Chief Minister, Hon'ble Education Minister, Principal Secretary, Commissioner of Public Instruction, the Directors and the Department as a whole, we will be able to discharge our onerous duties as facilitators in the field of Primary & Secondary Education and succeed in achieving 'excellence in education' which has been our cherrished motto.

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Karnataka Unaided Schools Managements Association(R)
No.9, Vanivilas Road, V.V.Puram, Bangalore - 560 004.

Ph:26619035
E-mail:kusmaassn@gmail.com
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