porvorim chief minister pramod sawant speaking in the house on monday said that enrolment in government primary schools was dwindling because aided schools were using the balrath bus service to poach students these schools are meant to use the service only for their high school students he said the cm also said that many aided institutes were demanding different fees from students despite getting government aidprimary students should go to neighbourhood schools but they are now travelling up to 15km to study in aided schools due to availability of balraths said sawantstating the education department has received a number of complaints about aided schools taking money from students in the form of pta fees maintenance fees etc sawant said that aided schools get a number of facilities from the government besides grants and have no right to charge students any other fee in no other state does such a system of grants exist if we receive complaints in writing we will take action the cm said many mlas are complaining about the maintenance of aided schools it is the school managements responsibility to carry out the work with the aid they get from the government he said that the infrastructure in a number of government primary schools has been upgraded and work is on to recruit teachers good infrastructure and good teachers can increase government schools enrolment numbers we have seen it happen in government schools in priol karapur etc said sawant agreeing that goa did have a higher number of singleteacher government primary schools as against other states he said we have merged such schools if schools are merged we will have more teachers but parents are opposing this we will also provide transportation at some places where schools are merged we have also hired teachers under the apprenticeship programme to help singleteacher schools he said that work has also started to bring recruitment rules in government and aided schools on par as per the provisions of the nep