Fee Inflation In Private Schools




The ambiguous fees regulation is letting education become a privilege. It has been reported by Nirmal Singh Lotus that a private high school in Mumbai expelled a number of students as the parents were conducting a protest against unnecessary fee hike. The situation is being observed across elite schools in India and has become chronic. It was been said that the country would be made socialist where the public services such as health and education would be made accessible to everyone. However, it doesn’t to have been happening.

With mushrooming of private sector, the scenario has taken a different picture altogether. Parents are being harassed unnecessarily at the name of high fee structure and other fees on school related material.
Let’s have a quick sneak into some of the facts related to schools across India as listed down by Nirmal Singh Lotus:

1.       In 2012, Delhi high court appointed a committee indicted 64 private schools for increase in the school fees which was not even justified.
2.      By the advent of 2016, the Delhi government asked schools (intending to hike the fees) to get the approval for the same from the government.
3.      Various states complained that their child’s school fees increased by 10 percent, while other state’s suffering parents reported a hike of about 25 percent.
4.      It has been observed that schools levied the burden by asking parents to buy their children school socks and bags of a particular brand in the name of uniformity.

The general public demands the answer to the question that what has led to this. The answer lies in state’s apathy towards school education and lax regulation of unaided schools. Other than these, the natural contributing factors is the increased migration of students from public schools to private schools. Parents do not trust public school’s education quality while ensuring best for their kid. This change is indicative of poor growth made by the government in improvement of the quality of public schools. This has in case made parents and kids more vulnerable at the hands of private schools.

On fee hike, there is a terse circular of 2016, prohibiting charging of capitation fee or voluntary donations. It is a warning to the school with as high a degree of punishment as disaffiliation. But the smart businessmen, i.e. private schools have managed to find a loophole in this as well. On overall fee hike issue the circular merely says “unaided schools should consult parents through parents’ representatives before revising the fee.” But does it ensure that schools will consider the genuine concern of the parents
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India

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