New Delhi: As many as 13,000 schools, represented by two school management associations, from Karnataka have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the Basavaraj Bommai government of serious corruption, NDTV reported.In their letter to the prime minister, the school management bodies – The Associated Managements Of Primary And Secondary Schools, and The Registered Unaided Private Schools Management Association (RUPSA) – alleged that the state education department had been demanding bribes for various processes involving the department, including for the issuance of recognition certificates to educational institutions.They squarely placed the blame on state education minister B.C. Nagesh. According to Deccan Herald, RUPSA president Lokesh Talikatte on Friday, August 26, said, “Instead of curbing the corruption in the department, the minister B.C. Nagesh has become greedy and several private schools are on the verge of closure due to his greed.”Also read: Karnataka: Contractors Renew ‘40% Commission’ Charge, To Write to Modi AgainThe letter said several of their appeals to both Nagesh and chief minister Bommai had gone unattended, forcing them to reach out to the prime minister.Talikattee claimed that block education officers and deputy directors of public instruction (DDPI) had fixed a percentage as a “cut” to process any application. “The department renews recognition of schools every year and no file gets moved without a commission or bribe,” he added, according to the Deccan Herald report.The letter to the prime minister accuses “two different BJP ministers” of causing trouble to schools in the state.“The education ministry is impatient to listen and understand the actual pathetic situation of the whole system and resolve the issues. Two different BJP ministers literally caused lots of damage to budget schools rather than those schools that are commercialising education by allowing more and more investors to set up, directly costing more fees per child for parents,” the letter said, according to NDTV.“The education minister has no concern to liberalise the rigid norms and frame rules and regulations that both public and private schools can practically and physically implement without burdening parents and students,” the letter added.The signatories of the letter urged the prime minister to launch an investigation into the functioning of the Karnataka education ministry.Meanwhile, education minister Nagesh dismissed the allegations. “This is not the first time they are making these allegations. If they have proof, let them go to the Lokayukta,” he told Deccan Herald.The letter to the prime minister by school management associations comes days after the association of state contractors on Wednesday, August 25, had written to him accusing the Bommai government of demanding a “40% commission” in the executed works.