New Delhi. A new academic session has started but schools, colleges are still closed, in which case parents and academics are demanding a definitive framework for fixing school fees. On behalf of parents across the country, the All India Parents Association has demanded a ‘School Fees Regulation Bill’. Parents want a bill to introduce provisions to deal with the epidemic in private schools and regularize fees. The parents will soon discuss this with the Union Minister of Education and the Chief Ministers of various states. President of All India Parents Association and member of Delhi University Academic Council, Ashok Aggarwal said that the parents association has also written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on this subject. Through this letter, parents across the country have demanded a nationwide rule regarding fees in private schools.
Actually, parents want a committee to be set up to fix the fee structure of unaided and private schools across the country. Private schools should decide their fees only on the basis of the recommendations of this committee. Ashok Aggarwal told IANS, “There is a big difference in the fees of schools across the country right now. Schools are arbitrarily fixing their fees.”
According to educationist Sunita Mehta, despite giving similar facilities, there is a wide difference in the fees of schools in many places. Formation of a committee would be an appropriate step to end such arbitrariness.
The All India Parents Association will also meet the Union Minister of Education soon on this subject. Apart from this, the Chief Ministers of all the states will also be contacted in this matter.
Meanwhile, the Delhi government has clarified that schools will not be opened for small classes at the moment amid growing corona infection once again. Apart from Delhi, several other states including Punjab, Puducherry, Gujarat, Himachal, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan have also decided to keep schools closed for small classes at present.
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