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Recently, a private high school in Mumbai expelled twenty students because their parents were protesting against unjustified fee hike. It was the continuation of what has become a chronic occurrence in elite private schools throughout India. We the people promised ourselves a socialist state that would ensure an affordable access to public services such as health and education. But, with aggressive mushrooming of private players there have been increasing incidents of parents’ harassment through frequent fee hike and unreasonable charges levied on school related material. Parents associations in different parts of India have been fighting a long drawn battle that doesn’t seem to have an immediate end.
Let’s have a look at some of the facts related to schools across India
1. In 2012, a Delhi High Court appointed committee indicted 64 private schools for unjustifiably hiking tuition fee and recommended that the excess amount must be refunded to parents with 9 percent interest. The panel observed that these schools have abused their leverages by capitalising on the government order (which allowed them to hike fees by up to 25 percent) for unjust enrichment, causing great prejudice to the interests of students and parents.
2. In early 2016, the Delhi government asked schools (intending to hike the fees) to get the approval for the same from the government. With initial applicants being 172, when the requirement of auditing before the approval was put forth, 28 schools withdrew their applications and of the remaining, only five were granted the hike.
3. In a recent survey, over 75 percent parents from Kerala, West Bengal, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Goa said that their child’s school increased the fee by more than 10 percent; while 15 percent of the total number of parents surveyed claimed the hike of more than 20 percent.
4. As per several recorded statements, parents are compelled to buy the shoes and bags of a particular brand, a sack-full of school stationery and overpriced notebooks and workbooks. Most of the items are sold within the school premises and if that is not the case then at the outlet of some prescribed vendor with whom the school authorities have a tie-up.
Let’s have a look at some of the facts related to schools across India
1. In 2012, a Delhi High Court appointed committee indicted 64 private schools for unjustifiably hiking tuition fee and recommended that the excess amount must be refunded to parents with 9 percent interest. The panel observed that these schools have abused their leverages by capitalising on the government order (which allowed them to hike fees by up to 25 percent) for unjust enrichment, causing great prejudice to the interests of students and parents.
2. In early 2016, the Delhi government asked schools (intending to hike the fees) to get the approval for the same from the government. With initial applicants being 172, when the requirement of auditing before the approval was put forth, 28 schools withdrew their applications and of the remaining, only five were granted the hike.
3. In a recent survey, over 75 percent parents from Kerala, West Bengal, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Goa said that their child’s school increased the fee by more than 10 percent; while 15 percent of the total number of parents surveyed claimed the hike of more than 20 percent.
4. As per several recorded statements, parents are compelled to buy the shoes and bags of a particular brand, a sack-full of school stationery and overpriced notebooks and workbooks. Most of the items are sold within the school premises and if that is not the case then at the outlet of some prescribed vendor with whom the school authorities have a tie-up.
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