Karimnagar: TRSMA State president Yadagiri Shekar Rao urged the government Bear salaries of private schools

Karimnagar: Telangana Residential Schools Management Association (TRSMA) State president Yadagiri Shekar Rao urged the government to bear the salaries of the staff of private schools for the lockdown period and bail them out of financial problems.

In a statement released here on Sunday, Shekar Rao said like all other sectors, education also was badly hit with corona effect. The government orders hit the private schools management hard, throwing them into financial problems, he lamented.

Shekar Rao said the private schools managements couldn't collect fees due to the government's directives to the SCC students to download hall tickets directly from websites for appearing the exam, even without School Headmaster's attestation,

which hit the private schools management hard.

The government's another order promoting all students from Class 1 to Class 9 without exams also made the private schools management financially weak. This is because, most of the parents will pay their wards' fee in instalments and the final instalment will be just before the exams.

Now with no exams, there are chances that the parents may not pay the fees.

Finally, the government's decision not to increase fees for 2020-21 academic year, without consulting the managements of private schools and its order to pay salaries to the staff for three months of lockdown period are like a thunder that befallen on the management.

TRSMA State president Shekar Rao lamented that under such

situation, it is hard to run schools and on behalf of TRSMA he urged the government, Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy and Special Chief Secretary Chitra Ramachandran to bear the salaries of private schools.