Punjab government appeals against High Court’s decision to pay school fees

Chandigarh The state government led by Captain Amarinder Singh today challenged the High Court’s decision in the matter related to the payment of school fees during the time of lockdown.
C.P.C. Of the Letters Patents Appeal (LPA) filed against the single judge’s decision under Rule 5, Rule 41 with Section 151 of the State Government, ‘in the interest of justice and justice’ the execution of the single judge’s order and The June 30 verdict is sought to be stayed. In the June 30 judgment, the single judge of the High Court had given relief to private schools to effectively charge all fees, whether these schools offered online education / classes or not.
Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has earlier expressed concern over charging fees despite private schools not setting up online or offline classes in view of the bandh during Kovid. This issue was also discussed during the cabinet meeting on Wednesday and Advocate General Atul Nanda was appointed as an L.P.A. Told to be filed.
Lpa It was pointed out that the private schools could not put any evidence or material on record to prove this despite financial difficulties and being unable to meet their expenses.
It was further observed that the High Court in its orders has ignored the fact that to reduce the difficulties posed to parents in the crisis of Kovid-19, the Punjab Government will provide only tuition fees (by them to provide online education to private schools) Reason) was forced to issue an order related to taking.
According to the LPA, objectionable orders and verdicts do not provide a method for examining and certifying ‘actual expenses’ while allowing schools to recover ‘actual expenses’. Thus, there are practical problems in serving and implementing this objectionable order and decision.
Noting that the Punjab government order was not only motivated by the contingent situation but was temporarily adopted, the Punjab and Haryana High Court, according to the LPA, also ignored the fact that other states had The High Courts, which did not issue similar orders even though similar orders were issued, did not interfere in this regard. According to the LPA’s show, a similar case was issued by the Haryana government challenging a similar case, with a Cordinate bench adjourning the case till September, giving interim or other relief to Haryana’s private schools. has gone.
Your LPA The Punjab government has also exposed the biased approach adopted by Punjab and Haryana High Court in passing the order passed on 30 June 2020. The appeal also raised the issue of upholding the issues filed in favor of the schools and the distribution of powers and availability of Article 19 (1) (g) during other such emergencies.