Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

Fee hike in the educational institutions this year has become a deep issue of concern in India. Either the elementary, secondary or higher educational institutes no one is leaving a bit to make the education catering a business agenda.

Say, in Vishakhapatnam, the private-unaided schools have increased the fee by 25%. The most burden has been thrown on parents, who want to give a good education to their kids from a recognized school. Even in small schools the, parents are being forced to shell out over 20% additional fee.

Its been above than the limits, the way Vishakhapatam schools are dealing with education. Several international schools in the city are charging upto 1.20 lakh even for LKG and UKG while in the other areas like Madhurwada and Seethammadhara medium-level schools are charging upto 25,000-45,000 annually for the first and second standard. For class 10th anything between 70,000 and 1.20 lakh is being charged annually.

Though, the matter ended up with a week long protest in front of a particular school. The issue subsided after the school management dropped the decision to hike fee for this academic year. But, it happened just for a particular school, the matter for others is still a concern.

Other states

Education fee hike is not just the matter of Andhra Pradesh but most of the other states across India are dealing with the similar matter.

Delhi: In Delhi the private schools got a nod from the Delhi High Court single judge to increase the fee without taking prior permission from the Delhi government. Following the order, one of the schools of Delhi in Greater Kailash increased the fee by 12% without taking government’s prior permission, which led to the protest by government.

West Bengal: Students of Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal’s Birbhum district protested against the fee hike. One of the students protesting declared that the fee amount is just doubled.

Though, as per the RTE Act, collection of huge fee in the name of development and forcing students to purchase goods, bags etc. at higher prices on school premises amount too violation of child rights.

However, no core actions are still seem to be taken against fee hike in any of the states.

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