New Delhi: Raising questions at the Round Table on school education's Public Private Partnership (PPP) progress recently, no unanimous decision has yet been arrived at.

In spite of the one-year time span taken by the Planning Commission for 2,500 model schools, no set formula has cracked the nut.

According to the Planning Commission's report for the PPP initiative, it wanted the government to bear the financial burden and other extra charges for at least 1000 students per school.

The Round Table members were completely spell bound upon the revelation; they disapproved of bearing an extra financial burden as they are already facing crunch of funds to implement the Right to Education Act.

Planning Commission Advisor Gajendra Haldea is asked to come up with a new format to share equal burden by both the sectors within four weeks, while the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry will do so in a week's time.

Though the Round Table on School Education meeting arrived at a unanimous decision, realizing the need for the implementation of the PPP scheme in schools but there were conflicting views among the members over the efficacy of the public schools.

Some of them argued that the government schools could not be compared to the private schools while others said that those residing in remote areas prefer to enroll themselves in a private school owing to the poor quality of education in government.

With the intervention of the HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal, a consensus was finally arrived, making PPP necessary to develop infrastructure, playgrounds and laboratories at schools, more so in remote areas.

Previously, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) had announced to set up 5000 model schools based on the Kendriya Vidyalyas out of which 2500 were to be setup by the government while the rest were to be developed on the PPP model.

The Planning Commission did not find the decision of the HRD Ministry to settle for a flexible format to allow the entry of private operators.