Nirmal Singh Lotus

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 in...

Private schooling is the bedrock of the thriving education system of India. India has about 1.5 million K-12 schools and over 250 million students. While only 25 per cent of the schools are private, the student population is about 40 per cent in these schools. It is obvious enough that parents prefer sending their kids to private schools instead of governmental ones. According to an EY-FICCI report, this is true for rural areas as well which saw a jump in private school enrolments from 18.7 per cent in 2006 to 25.6 per cent in 2011. Students in private schools perform better and outdo those of government schools. An NCAER report shows that about 65 per cent of private school students are able to meet class two level reading which is just about 45 per cent for governmental schools. The same percentages in Math lie at about 57 and 39 respectively. Therefore, it is for justifiable reasons that parents prefer sending their kids to private schools. It is important to not...