DEVICE FOR FEE HIKE IN UNAIDED PRIVATE SCHOOL

           DEVICE FOR FEE HIKE IN UNAIDED PRIVATE SCHOOL ( RTI DISCLOSURE) :- Now a days unaided private schools are trying to create the doubt in the mind of fee paying parents that they have to increase the fee as RTE has burdened them some extra expenditure and revenue has been decreased due to E.W.S/D.G. clause in the RTE Act 2009 but the above two undertaking exposes the greedy school management and reveals the reason for increased fee schools are collecting from the innocent fee paying parents. These two sample documents in the blog is related with RYAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SECTOR 25 ROHINI and similar to hundred of  school running in Delhi. First document is a page from annual return of the school for the year 2011 which mentions the school starts from class-I and having 43 enrollment ( copy of doc in left side). Copy of return shows enrollment in school on 11.08.2011. The school submitted an undertaking in compliance of DOE order and Delhi High court judgement in a social jurist P.I.L W.P(c) 8434 of 2011 that the school has filled 175 students in nursery 150 in KG and 180 in class-I during academic session 2011-12.( copy of doc in right side). As per undertaking school runs from nursery and it has filled 510 seats in session 2011-12 where admission ends in latest by April hence there is no question of 43 enrollment in class-I and no enrollment in nursery and KG on 11.08.2011.
           The above mentioned example is not only for this one school but a very large no of schools are involved in this unfair practice and a common man is the victim of this manipulation in accounting by concealing facts and submitting incorrect data. To understand the impact we have to understand the process of fee fixation for a school. School education is a charity and community service where school projects expenditure and inform the DOE for the same and divides this expenditure with number of students and fix the fee. If the enrollment will be shown less then automatically per child expenditure will increase and school fix fees on that basis. In the month of July school files the return and being a no profit organization profiteering is not allowed hence in the case of surplus after permissible limits they have to reduce the fee next year but none of the school showing the attitude to reduce the fee. Directorate of Education is regulator and duty bound to check these foul play and in the modern school case Hon'ble supreme court has categorically directed the director education to see all these issue for all the schools and in the case of school running at public land the prior sanction of Directorate is needed for any increase in fee but it is very unfortunate affair of directorate that all the records are in their office but they do not care for this mass extortion of the innocent middle class parents who is paying unjustified fee to these greedy public schools.

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