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SC issues orders to CISCE, CBSE, MP govt & school association; Parents demand committee under HC to determine fee

As the matter of school fee charged during corona period and decision on online fee charged escalated to Supreme Court, SC issued notices to the CICSE (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations) Board, Madhya Pradesh state government, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education), Association of Unaided CBSE Schools in the matter.

The petition was filed by Jagrut Palak Sangh, Indore. The next hearing in the case will be after 3 weeks. In PIL filed at SC, CICSE Board was also made a party along with the State Government, CBSE Board, Association of Unaided CBSE Schools.

The sangh of parents filed a petition in SC against the unbridled schools and demanded that the schools should be banned. Earlier, a public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Jabalpur Bench of the High Court by the sangh, citing school tuition fees as ‘unfair’.

High Court had ruled that tuition fees can be recovered by the schools. Hence, in appeal, parents approached SC in the matter.

In the hearing, advocate Mayank Kshirsagar representing petitioner along with Sangh secretary Sachin Maheshwari, presented the fees receipts of some private schools before the court. The representatives quoted that schools have been charging complete fee under the head of tuition fee.

“In most of the schools of MP, the entire fees are taken in the name of tuition fees and all those fees are included in it, which the High Court MP and the State Government have prohibited taking in their order,” said the petitioner.

The petition also presented the balance sheet of last year of a private school, in which only about 20 percent of the tuition fees recovered was spent in the salary of teachers and staff.

The bulk of the amount recovered in the name of tuition fees was spent on marketing, travel expenses, annual celebrations, private welfare of staff welfare school operators, installments in the amount withdrawn by the operators.

Accepting the arguments of the petitioners, SC while accepting the petition for hearing, passed orders to issue notice to the state government, the CBSE board, the ICSE board and the unaided private CBSE school association.

Advocate Chanchal Gupta, president of the Sangh, said that the petition demanded that a committee should be set up under the supervision of the High Court to determine the proper tuition fees.

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