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Fee regulation in private schools demanded.
Mild tension prevailed at the residence of Deputy Chief Minister K Srihari in Hanamkonda on Friday as the activists of Left wing student and woman organisations have staged protests at the residence.
Warangal: Mild tension prevailed at the residence of Deputy Chief Minister K Srihari in Hanamkonda on Friday as the activists of Left wing student and woman organisations have staged protests at the residence.
The activists of SFI, DYFI and AIDWA laid siege to the Deputy CM’s residence seeking to curtail collection of excessive fees from parents by private schools managements in Warangal district.
The police have prevailed over the protestors and arrested them. The situation was very serious as the corporate schools managements were demanding fees ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1,00,000. Small and medium level school managements were collecting fees ranging from Rs 20,000 to Rs 50,000, they complained.
Speaking to press persons, the SFI district secretary Ch Srikanth, DYFI district secretary D Tirupati and AIDWA district secretary N Ratnamala said the private schools were competing with professional colleges offering engineering and medical course in collecting the fees.
‘This kind of situation is not found anywhere in the country. The education department and state government were turning blind eye to the exploitation of private schools. As a result the parents were compelled to spend huge amounts to get wards educated,’ they lamented.
The Deputy CM, who holds education portfolio, should see that the fees fixed by the District Fees Regulation Committee (DFRC) and implement the GO 91/2009 wherein Rs 500 as onetime registration fee and Rs 5,000 towards refundable caution deposit should be collected.
As per section 12(1) C of RTE Act 25 percent seats in private schools should be allotted to poor SC/ST and BC students, Ratnamala said while demanding the education minister to ensure that qualified teachers were appointed in private schools.
