Below Review was deleted by G D Goenka Public School, Gaya Facebook page and hence posting it here so that others can know about this opinion.
Wonderful Students, Dynamic Teachers but a Failed, Egoistic, Semiliterate, and Horrible management has brought this School and Brand to a new low. I’ve observed that You are the apple of their eyes until you keep working for them but the moment you decide to take a break they will make you feel sorry for it and will do everything possible to demean and discredit you. I have suffered because of their rude behavior but they didn’t care. They don’t have an only behavioral problem the real issue is with accountancy where at one side they fine parents for one day late but will never give their employee salary before 20th of next month. PF is something you won’t get until you lodge a complaint with the EPFO office, and not paying last month’s salary is common here.
No doubt they have a good campus with some great teachers out there and they also spend a handsome amount on functions and children get more chances to explore opportunities and learn new skills but then Parents and Teachers both have a lot more issues with the management.
– Ex Sr. Coordinator of GD Goenka Public School Gaya who served this school for 4 Years
If you are a teacher and have a thought to work with G D Goenka Public School, Gaya please note that they don’t have any rules to run their organization and there is nothing for employee welfare except the big talks and fake promises. They will never credit your salary on time, They won’t pay your PF and you have to follow up with the EPFO office for help, and management can sack you any moment they want and won’t even pay your salary in both cases either you are leaving or they are terminating. In four years I have seen people struggling a lot of chaos. Would like to highlight a few below:
- Fragile and Inconsistent Leadership- School is into its 8 Years and in these 8 years they have replaced 8 principals. As I was a founder teacher and worked for four years with them, I also got opportunity to work with the first four Principals- Mrs Dipti Joshna, Rohit Panda, Nidhi Joshi and Swati Ahmed. Later this position was chaired by Franciz Xavier, Himanshu Pandey and now Some Kriti Srivastava is leading G D Goenka Public school. These frequent changes led to big mess in coordination. Parents and Principal relationship is fragile, Value of teachers performing gone to a toss and this generated culture to Butter the new principal.
- Worst Account Management- They are worst when it comes to account and no body, not even their parent organization is happy with them when it comes to accountancy. Just to let you know that G D Goenka Vasantkunj has issued a public notice and deaffiliated G D Goenka Public School, Gaya because they failed to pay franchisee amount. Sleepy or shrewd management got alarmed with this public notice, parents started keep calling because they are paying for a brand which forced Management to pay the amounts and they retained affiliation but it was enough to create chaos and panic and resulted to a reduced student and staff strength.
- Job Insecurity among employees- As I mentioned earlier that G D Goenka have a habbit to replace principal and in these eight years they have eight principals but this insecurity is not for principals only, the teachers have faced even bitter situation and in every summer vacation they laid off employees just to save holiday vacations wages of employee. During Pandemic they have not paid their 80% of employee and remaining 20% employee have worked with half of their salary. Here, no matter at what position you’ve joined your job is always insecure and in such condition you can’t be hundred percent committed, this we wanted them to understand but management has a different plan and they are good at getting replacement at less expense and so they are happy but what about the brand name they are insulting evey now and then?
- Toothless Franchisee System- As a parent organization G D Goenka vasantkunj must have a check on the academic as well as management side but they are least bothered and they only bothered once when their franchisee amounts were not paid. They didn’t supported parents when a sudden fee hike was announced, they didn’t supported teachers who were sacked in Pandemic or have enquired about teachers working for full day on a half salary. They didn’t even bother when G d Goenka Gaya is regulating their own books and not following the books recommended by G DGoenka, vasantkunj.
- It is impossible that they are unaware of the situation but it seems they don’t care or it is out of their hand. But questions arises for them also. Why don’t they ensure about teachers and parents and have a check on fees and salary, if your franchisee is not paying PF or salary on time or raising sudden fee hikes you must have a procedure to check. Unlike you, PF office is very active and employees are hopeful that the office will do the justice, thanks to digital India where raising voice is easy or else cheap managements would never give the dues. Here I find this franchisee system little mean and they are not serving the people but exploiting at a level.
- Poor People Management- G D Goenka Public School, Gaya’s management is immoral and inhumane and I have resons to say it. I have seen students dropping from school because of a sudden fee hike in 2018, there was a huge outraise and anger among parents and to understand this management has called a meeting where Chairman Rabindra Kumar AKA Rabindra Singh Rathore and Director CB Singh have called a meeting with teachers and other non teaching staffs including account, HR and marketing team. Brainstorming was on how to please parents, retain students with the new fee hike. I remember while delivering his opinion C B Singh, Director of G D Goenka Public Shool, Gaya, who recently has opened a new school named “Knowledge Gram” has termed teachers as “Dead Body” and exaggarated that when your students are dropping because of fee hike what you Dead Bodies are doing? Can’t you all sponsor atleast one one students? Auditorium where this brainstorming was happening was sunt, and I was only thinking that how a director with 30+ years of experience can be so idiot that he can expect a school teacher who merely receives 10-15-20K to spend on a teacher whose monthly fee was around 4K? And why can’t a management initiate it at their end? Trust me this was the second worst moment I have faced. Worst was when I met chairman personally and let him know that I can’t contuniue anyomore he forget all my contribution and awarded me as a “SadakChhap”. It is behaviour to bully employees when they want to leave . This again help me to understand how great these legends are, and have helped me to leave this organization ASAP.
- Immoral and Inhumane Management- In 2022, G D Goenka Gaya has lost one of its bright and beloved students Krishen Prakash, during school dispersal. He died in school campus and Parents have alleged one of its teachers. School has performed shanti shabha, announced inter school physic competition in his memorial and its just 5 days passed they have shared a advertorial which claims G D Goenka Public School as top school in south bihar. Now just think, when your parents, student, teachers are mourning for the unfortunate incident your management is paying for advertorial to announce you as No. 1. Don’t you have a little shame? Is this the time for all this drama, and how dare you to declare yourself as top school? A failed, immoral, inconsistent management makes you worst school management in Gaya and this paid advertisements in form of editorial wont help untill you start valueing your stakeholders be it students, parents, teachers or partners. People has a saying for you “Koi aisa sagaa nahi jisko Goenka ne thaga nahi” please change your identity we all want you to become better and learn the things where you failed before. Ensure that these major mishaps should never ever happen again and do something good for people too.
- Fake Promises-G D Goenka Gaya, is a notorious in terms of fake promises and there are many of occasions when they proved that they are serious liars.
- 1. They started a cricket academy and named it Sanath Jaisurya Cricket Academy in school campus on the name of Srilankan Legendary batsman Sanath Jaisuriya. They boasted alot about it but failed to give children opportunity. News are in market that when Jaisuriya visited them for second time they failed to pay and so he didn’t turned again. Accountacy is big mess here which I mentioned before and they cheated legend too.
- 2. They promised parents of a mini stadium which also turned as a fake promise and sports complex with three rooms with only PE teacher in school is in practice these days. They sacked four regular sports teachers last two years and have a new teacher these days.
- 3. G D Goenka Gaya is known for its fake promises one for which children as well as parents were excited was semi olympic size swimming pool, they keep it advertisment for first three sessions and keep saying that swimming pool will come soon, but that soon never came.
- 4. In third year they promised to have an international collaboration with schools in abroad for cultural exchange which also have turned as a fake promises.
- 5. Trip for teachers was something everyone knows whenever management talks as it never happened in last 6 years, so this is also a fake promise.
- Top Management don’t value their own brand- It’s true that G D Goenka Gaya’s top management don’t value their Goenkan brand because if they could have valued then their second school also should have come under the same franchisee but this time they seem independent and both the schools Director is same. May be in future they will deaffiliate themselve from Goenka as they have experienced a bitter relationship in past where G D Goenka vasantkunj has terminated its franchisee in Gaya.
Hope I’ve made my opinion obvious. Please note that this review is only for the poor Account and people management in G D Goenka Public School, Gaya and I really appreciate some good people there who are giving their best and raising children in the best possible way but I am worried about their future also, and It was painful to know that during the pandemic in the last one and half years they have laid off many of employees with no salary. May Krishna bless Goenkan management some heart and they learn to respect people and have the courage to introspect themselves. A lot to unlearn and relearn for them is due.
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