Education
Parents Start Online Petition against School Fee Hike to HRD Ministry.
Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments have announced that schools should not force parents to pay fees during the lockdown.
While parents are waiting for a school fee waiver during the lockdown due to the corona virus outbreak in the country, several schools have announced a fee hike adding to their woes.
Parents have started an online petition to the HRD Ministry demanding a directive to schools to not implement a fee hike this academic session at least till schools reopen.
While the Gujarat government had on Monday announced that private schools will not hike fees for a year, the West Bengal government had appealed schools to refrain from hiking fees. However, no clear instructions have been issued on fee hike in Delhi-NCR.
“With no information when normalcy will return, when we could head back to our respective workplace is the question that remains unanswered and here, I receive an intimation from the school regarding the hike in fee. I was baffled how would I be able to cope up? I am anxious to know about the school fee hike and transport fee hike which the school says is to meet the cost demands for the academic year 2020-21,” said Pivit Joshi, whose son studies in a prominent school in Noida. He did not wish to identify the name of the school.
Jagriti Shukla, a parent in Gurgaon, said, “We understand the schools’ concern that they need to pay salaries and cannot waive fees but at least hike can be avoided at such crucial time. Why the government has not passed any order in this regard?”
“We are getting basic pay but the performance-linked incentives have been suspended for the lockdown period. The appraisals have been deferred to next financial year but the school’s fee hike is going on as per usual,” he said.
The schools were closed by mid-March, ahead of the nationwide lockdown announcement due to the spread of corona virus. The 21-day lockdown, which was scheduled to end today, has now been extended till May 3. However, several schools have already begun teaching and learning activities online.
Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments have announced that schools should not force parents to pay fees during the lockdown. However, there is no clarity among parents about whether no fees will be charged during the period or they will have to be paid later.
While the Delhi government has not issued any directive about any possible fees waiver, the private schools in Delhi are supposed to get clearances on fee hike from the government’s fee review management committee.
The death toll due to corona virus infection in the country rose to 339 while the number of cases soared to 10,363 on Tuesday, said the Union health ministry.
While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 8,988, as many as 1,035 people have been cured and discharged and one had migrated, it said.
Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.
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