A high-powered committee headed by Justice Anil Dev Singh to review the fee hike by private schools in the city has recommended that 53 schools should refund the excess fee to the parents with nine pe
A high-powered committee headed by Justice Anil Dev Singh to review the fee hike by private schools in the city has recommended that 53 schools should refund the excess fee to the parents with nine per cent interest. The report submitted by the committee on December 30 deals with 75 schools. The committee has so far submitted its recommendations in respect of 1,066 schools in its nine reports submitted so far.
Among the 53 schools, there are 13 where the committee has also recommended special inspection to be carried out by the director of education. These schools had increased the fee but had not implemented the 6th Pay Commission report.
Of the remaining 40 schools, the committee has found that the hike effected by them in pursuance of an order dated February 2009 issued by the DoE was either wholly or partially unjustified.
The committee observed that some of these schools did not produce the required records for examination but the fee schedules filed by them showed that they had hiked the fee or the schools, in their communications with it, had admitted to having hiked the fee in pursuance of the DoE order, but, in the absence of the records, the factum of implementation of the recommendations of the 6th pay Commission could not be verified.
In respect of 20 schools, the committee has not recommended any intervention as the fee hiked by the schools in pursuance of the DoE order was found to be justified considering the additional liabilities incurred by the school in implementing the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission in the context of the funds available with them.
For remaining two schools, the committee has not been able to take a categorical view as the implementation of pay commission report was not doubted but the school failed to produce its fee records and books of accounts.
