Parents approach HRD over school fee hike
While some parents are taking help of
child rights commission to get justice, some have started online petition to
submit the ministry on websites like change.org
The
growing number of fee hike issue every year in the city and different states
have forced parents' community to raise voice against schools. While some parents
are taking help of child rights commission to get justice, some have started
online petition to submit the ministry on websites like change.org.
Despite
the fee regulation act according to which, the schools have to decide their
fees once in every two years, the schools have been increasing the fees every
year, which has forced many parents to fight against it. Many parents have even
approached the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights
(MSCPCR). Some parents from Pune have started an online petition to present it
to the central government.
A
recent petition against fee hike has been put up on change.org by one parent
named Makarand Gurjar from Pune, and it has got more then 200 signatures till
now. The petition states that private schools are increasing their fees every
year at an average rate of 10-15 per cent. The reason given by the schools on
fee hike to parents are inflation and teachers' salary. The petition states
that whenever parents ask schools about PTA list and how their fee hike has
been approved by PTA, the schools refuse to share those details with parents.
According to the petition, private schools don't follow any fee regulation
acts. In the petition, In the petition, its has been alleged that the schools
don't listen to parents as well as the education departments. In the petition,
Gurjar has urged the government to either take over private institutions or
close them as they are making profits. The petition will be submitted to the
Human Resource Department, Prime Minister and Chief Ministers of all states.
One
of the parent Prasad Tulaskar, who is fighting against fee hike issue with his
child's school management said, "The schools have started thinking of
themselves as the government and whatever they say is the rule. This needs to
be stopped somewhere and there should be government pressure on them. The
privatization in schools needs to be stopped so that every class can afford the
education, then only our country will progress. Many students fail to take
education because they cannot afford it. When the situation will change where
everyone can afford education, then only achche din will come."
"Most
of the parents don't know whether to file a complaint or not when schools
increase fees every year. According to the fee regulation act, schools are not
suppose to increase fees every year but they do so and give reasons like they
are private institution and government rules are not applicable on them. The
government should come out with some strict rules for such schools," said
Jayant Jain, President of Forum for Fairness in Education.
Recently,
the deputy director of school education has also issued a circular for all
schools as a reminder that they need to put up the information on their notice
board about fee regulation act. According to the act, it's mandatory for
schools to form Parent Teacher Association (PTA). The schools have been asked
to send details to the education department like date of PTA formation in their
school, members of PTA, video shooting of the PTA should be done etc.
"This
is an old rule and schools know about it. But since they don't follow the rule
we have to issue this circular to remind them about the act and that they h
ave
to inform the parents about the it," said BB Chauhan, deputy director of school
education.
Source | Daily News Analysis | 24
October 2016
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