All India Parents Association (AIPA) on Monday asked parents not to pay the hiked school fees for the 2013-14 academic year, unless a school has received prior approval for the increased fee from the Justice Anil Dev Singh Committee.
Delhi High Court had constituted the Justice Anil Dev Singh Committee to review the fee hike by government unaided private schools in Delhi in 2009.
In its two interim reports, submitted in the High Court, the Committee has held that most of the private schools have unjustly and without actual requirement increased the fees and other charges and directed them to refund the same to the parents with 9 per cent interest thereon.
Ashok Agarwal, national president, All India Parents Association (AIPA) said that ‘in view of the Committee’s findings, parents are advised not to pay the hiked fee for the 2013-14 academic year, unless a school has received prior approval for the fee hike from the Justice Anil Dev Singh Committee.’
Parents should note that there is no law that permits a 10 per cent hike in school fees every year.
The law is that fees may be increased or decreased depending upon the actual requirement of the school.'
According to AIPA, the Delhi High Court in its judgment dated 12 August 2011, in Social Jurist PIL, had asked the central government to frame a national policy on school fees.
But the central government is yet to do anything in this regard.
The AIPA feels that the concerned legislation should also have a provision for at least a 50 per cent representation of parents in the schools’ managing committees.
‘If that is practiced, the commercialisation of education in government unaided private schools can be checked to a larger extent,’ Agarwal said.
FURORE OVER FEES
Delhi High Court had constituted the Justice Anil Dev Singh Committee to review the fee hike by government unaided private schools in Delhi in 2009.
In its two interim reports, submitted in the High Court, the Committee has held that most of the private schools have unjustly and without actual requirement increased the fees and other charges and directed them to refund the same to the parents with 9 per cent interest thereon.
Ashok Agarwal, national president, All India Parents Association (AIPA) said that ‘in view of the Committee’s findings, parents are advised not to pay the hiked fee for the 2013-14 academic year, unless a school has received prior approval for the fee hike from the Justice Anil Dev Singh Committee.’
Parents should note that there is no law that permits a 10 per cent hike in school fees every year.
The law is that fees may be increased or decreased depending upon the actual requirement of the school.'
According to AIPA, the Delhi High Court in its judgment dated 12 August 2011, in Social Jurist PIL, had asked the central government to frame a national policy on school fees.
But the central government is yet to do anything in this regard.
The AIPA feels that the concerned legislation should also have a provision for at least a 50 per cent representation of parents in the schools’ managing committees.
‘If that is practiced, the commercialisation of education in government unaided private schools can be checked to a larger extent,’ Agarwal said.
FURORE OVER FEES
- Delhi High Court had constituted the Justice Anil Dev Singh Committee to review the fee hike by government unaided private schools in Delhi in 2009
- In its two interim reports, submitted in the High Court, the Committee has held that most of the private schools have unjustly and without actual requirement increased the fees and other charges and directed them to refund the same to the parents with 9 per cent interest thereon
- There is no law that permits a 10 per cent hike in school fees every year