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No fee regulation in private schools this year
Regulating fee in private schools may not be possible during this academic year as the committee appointed by the government for the purpose has sought one-month extension to submit its report.
Hyderabad: Regulating fee in private schools may not be possible during this academic year as the committee appointed by the government for the purpose has sought one-month extension to submit its report.
The request was made by the committee headed by Prof T Tirupati Rao and the government has granted it. The committee was supposed to submit its report to the government during the first week of May.
As the academic year of the schools would begin on June 12, it may not be possible for the government to issue orders on fee regulation by that time and the present fee system will have to continue for this academic year.
It may be mentioned here that an agitation by parents and academic activists to control fee structure in private schools has been on for a long time and it had prompted the government to appoint a committee to study and make recommendations on fee regulation.
The committee held several rounds of meetings with the academic activists and other stakeholders. The committee will be recommending the procedure to determine the fee structure and other do’s and don’ts for the private schools.
Members of the committee felt that the fee should be determined on the basis of costs involved in running the schools, constitution of district-level fee regulatory committees and others.
Academic activists demanded that the committee to recommend for establishment of fee regulatory commission at the state level. They also wanted constitution of a competent authority at state level to oversee the working of the private schools. The activists told the committee to recommend issuing of an ordinance in this regard.
According to sources, the committee wants more time to submit the report as it wants to submit a report that is foolproof so that the orders issued by the government basing on the recommendations of the committee could stand legal scrutiny.
In the past, the government issued two orders regulating the fee structure in the private schools and the courts have struck them down as they failed to stand the legal scrutiny.
By N M Satheesh
