Rights body files PIL against school for harassing the disabled
17 Oct 2012 7:38 AM IST
A PIL has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the city government to take action against a private school for allegedly charging ‘excess’ fees from students with disabilities.
Social Jurists, a civil rights society, filed the plea through counsel Ashok Agarwal alleging that Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan Mehta Vidyalaya on Kasturba Gandhi Marg has been charging more than 38 per cent excess fee from students with disabilities in comparison with general students. The PIL is likely to be listed for hearing on Wednesday. Seeking directions to the school to forthwith stop charging higher fee from disabled students, the petitioner sought the court to pass an order against the school to refund the excess fees already recovered in the past three years.
According to the plea, the school has nearly 80 students with disabilities and the fee being charged from them is even higher than the maximum fee charged by the school from class XII general students. ‘Students with disabilities are charged fee and other charges between 38 to 39 per cent higher than what is charged from general students in the academic year 2012-2013. ‘A Class-IV student with disabilities has been charged tuition fee of Rs 44,640 and the general students of the same class are being charged tuition fee of Rs 32,160 during 2012-2013, which is 38 per cent [Rs 12,480] higher’ the PIL said.
Social Jurists, a civil rights society, filed the plea through counsel Ashok Agarwal alleging that Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan Mehta Vidyalaya on Kasturba Gandhi Marg has been charging more than 38 per cent excess fee from students with disabilities in comparison with general students. The PIL is likely to be listed for hearing on Wednesday. Seeking directions to the school to forthwith stop charging higher fee from disabled students, the petitioner sought the court to pass an order against the school to refund the excess fees already recovered in the past three years.
According to the plea, the school has nearly 80 students with disabilities and the fee being charged from them is even higher than the maximum fee charged by the school from class XII general students. ‘Students with disabilities are charged fee and other charges between 38 to 39 per cent higher than what is charged from general students in the academic year 2012-2013. ‘A Class-IV student with disabilities has been charged tuition fee of Rs 44,640 and the general students of the same class are being charged tuition fee of Rs 32,160 during 2012-2013, which is 38 per cent [Rs 12,480] higher’ the PIL said.
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