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Notably, four-five schools are either in the city or in the 15 km vicinity of the city.“The primary education director had asked us to publicise the names of the illegal schools through different methods and we are working on it. If the school fails to comply with the guidelines by the said deadline, Rs 1 lakh fine will be imposed on them,” he said.He added that they have installed digital flexes in front of 16 such illegal schools, in order to make citizens aware of not admitting their wards in those schools. CLEARED SKHERKolhapur: The list of the 19 illegal schools and classes in them has been published on Tuesday and notices served to them, said Subash Chougule, district primary education officer, Kolhapur Zilla Parishad.According to Chougule, the schools have been asked to close their operations by May 31.“We have given them the deadline of May 31 to shut down their operations and comply with the notice. Putting up flexes is part of it. We will be keeping a close watch so as to make sure that the flexes are not removed by anyone,” he said.It has to be noted that the state directorate of primary education had asked the primary education officers across the state to shut down the illegal schools in their respective regions before June 15 this year..