The apparent trigger for the proposed move was the allegation that these institutions do not comply with the statutory norms laid down by the state school education department. Of the 3,500 English medium schools in the state, ICSE, CBSE and IB schools number around 500.

BJP legislator Chandrashekar Bawankule raised the issue of private unaided schools, especially English medium, through a calling-attention motion. The motion referred to the exorbitant fees charged by these schools. Many such schools also force students to buy uniforms, books and study material from the institution, he alleged.

Shiv Sena MLA Subhash Desai said two receipts under different heads were given to students by such schools. Summing up the mood of the assembly, Speaker Babasaheb Kupekar directed the state government to discipline these schools at the earliest.

Admitting that many of the board schools were known to charge excess money from parents and to insist that students buy school material from them at higher than market prices, Mushrif said, "We will seek legal opinion from the law and judiciary department on whether students passing out from such defaulting schools can be denied admission in the junior colleges of the state."