Central Board Of Secondary Education [CBSE] — Hiranandani Upscale School Chennai - Need Urgent Help

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 603103

This is to bring your notice to atrocities being faced by teachers, students and parents by Hiranandani Upscale School (HUS), Chennai managed by Hiranandani Foundation.

School director has been continuously abusing the national anthem, national leaders, teachers, students, and is implementing unethical and illogical practices in school.

We have tried to solve the situation amicably by inviting discussions and sending Hiranandani management numerous emails and registered post but no luck. Here is the quick overview of prevailing situation.


1. Loss of Education - Hiranandani management closed school abruptly on Tuesday, 1-Nov-2016 in the middle of session without any appropriate reason which is severely impacting education continuity of students, and there is a greater risk to X and XII grade students with pre-boards approaching soon. They initially closed the school for 2 days day i.e., 2nd and 3rd Nov and then we got another message that school will remained closed till 6th. We don’t know if school will reopen on 7th Nov or will remain closed for more time.

2. Degrading CBSE Reputation – CBSE has been treated in derogatory manner and school director keeps making unacceptable statements on CBSE board and CBSE education standards. School director is pushing to move students from CBSE to IGCSE if parents want better education for their kids, which is more driven by expensive school fees for IGCSE and the higher school profits than education quality.

3. Deteriorating Teacher Conditions - No teachers have been appointed for most part of the year for CBSE. The major reason is that teachers are not willing to join because of continuous harassment faced by them when teaching CBSE curriculum. Teacher are not given materials to teach properly, or encouraged to follow teaching standards and have teacher training as mandated by CBSE. There has been complaints of sexual harassment incidents as well.

4. Insulting Indian Education System - CBSE students/teachers are continuously getting insulted by director. He keeps making poor remarks on Indian education system, and ridicules students and teachers likewise.

5. Anti-National Activities - Director appointed by school continuously makes anti-Indian remarks and insulted the pictures of freedom fighters Mahatma Gandhi and APJ Abdul Kalam. School director made fun of Indian National Anthem in school premise and made a remark on republic day that it is such a “sad day”.

6. In-humanity - The director refused to let children’s use restrooms during class time and this is not even an exception for the girls during their biological emergency. The actions are completely inhuman and immoral.

7. Non-compliance - As directed by education board, CBSE & IG should be operating in different buildings which has not been followed by school, and preference is given to IGCSE students which is developing inferiority among CBSE students.

8. Sodexo Food Enforcement – School management is trying to enforce Sodexo Food at a premium price mandatory for all students with justification that they want to give healthy food to students. This decision was put on hold after PTA got court stay order for the same. School management later started distributing free Sodexo Food to attract kids which includes ‘Samosa’ and other fried items, which not only breaches parents authority to provide appropriate food to their kids based on individual kid’s health condition, allergies and cultural beliefs, but also the food provided by school management is no way a healthy food.

9. Lack of cooperation from Hiranandani school management - Hiranandani school management is neither coming forward to discuss with teachers and parents, nor are they responding to any of the communications. They are neither trying to probe into any of the complaints and we have heard that all directions to School Director are coming from Hiranandani management.

10. Dummy PTA – School PTA was formed with proper elections conducted by school management but PTA was later told that they are dummy body and that school management is not under obligation to consider any of their request and suggestions. PTA requested to meet up with management and director multiple times to amicably sort the issues but were refused out-rightly.


We need your help to have thorough investigation of this, and help us set the proper education standards and protocols in HUS.

All we want is just to have school reopen immediately and function to the best of CBSE standards, so that students don’t suffer on their education and future. We also want PTA to be empowered to have discussions with Hiranandani school management to amicably resolve any issues from time to time, and to have current HUS director being removed who is continuously discouraging Indian culture, CBSE board, teachers and students.

We sincerely look forward for your quick support in this regard as our kids and entire education system is on stake. Appreciate all your help in anticipation.

Here are some of the news articles for your quick reference to gather more details on the points mentioned above.

• http://www.ndtv.com/chennai-news/director-racist-harasses-teachers-huge-protests...⇄

• http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/british-director-mark-cornan-insults-apj-abdu...⇄

• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Parents-teachers-of-Hiranandani-school-allege-harassment-by-manage...⇄

• https://www.thequint.com/india/2016/11/03/british-head-of-tn-school-harassing-st...⇄

• http://www.ndtv.com/topic/hiranandani-upscale-school/news

• http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2016/nov/02/500-parents-stage-pro...⇄