Fee of public school
anil saxena
(Querist) 11 May 2013
This query is : Resolved
can a public school increase 100% fee at a time
R.K Nanda
(Expert) 11 May 2013
no, it is illegal.
anil saxena
(Querist) 12 May 2013
is there any decision of supreme court against the increasement in fee of public school
anil saxena
(Querist) 12 May 2013
what will we do to stop the increasement in fee
prabhakar singh
(Expert) 12 May 2013
Private schools are run under control of state legislated laws and rules and they are expected to act within that scope.
The publicly agitated dispute in this regard first arose in this country in orissa in DAV public school matter of fees enhancement in which supreme court had directed the committee to fix the fees .There was perhaps no law in orissa in this regard which was in Delhi in the matter of modern school.
The first judgement of SC was Unikrishnan J.P. and others v. State of Andhra Pradesh and others 1993 (1) SCC 645.
However it was overruled in T.M.A. Pai Foundation and others v. State of Karnataka and others, A.I.R. 2003 SC 355.
Whereafter Islamic Academy of Education v. State of Karnataka, (2003) 6 SCC 697 was decided.And thereafter came Modern School v. Union of India and others, etc etc. (2004) 5 SCC 583,
Then came Management Of Dav Public School & ... vs State Of Orissa & Anr. before orissa High court Decided on 27.06.2011)
ajay sethi
(Expert) 12 May 2013
Schools can’t increase fees without Board nod, says HC
Express news service : Chandigarh, Wed May 02 2012, 10:22 hrs
In a significant development and respite for parents, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today restrained the schools in Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana from hiking fees without obtaining prior permission from the Education Boards and Councils they are affiliated to. "No fee and other charges shall be enhanced by any school situated within the territorial jurisdiction of this court and affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, Punjab School Education Board and the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, without prior approval of the respective Board/ Council", a division bench comprising Justice S K Mittal and Justice TPS Mann held today.
The Bench has also issued directions to ensure that no books other than NCERT were prescribed in Punjab schools. The schools have been directed to take their respective Education Boards into confidence before any fee hike. The Bench has also directed that schools would submit their profit and loss statement for the past five years to the Central Board of Secondary Education, ICSE or Punjab School Education Board where they were affiliated.
Also, no CBSE affiliated schools would prescribe books published by publishers other than NCERT. The directions were issued on three PILs filed raising the same issue.
One of the petitions has been jointly filed by 10 students from Malerkotla while two other petitioners were city-based NGOs Anti Corruption and Crime Investigation Cell and All India Crime Preventing Society. Senior lawyer Pawan Kumar, counsel for the petitioners, sought directions to authorities to curb the menace of irrational and whimsical school fee hike by the schools.
The petitioner, referred to several Supreme Court judgments which hold that each school would maintain the account of the schools on the principles of non-business organisation.
Citing the example of a school in Punjab, the petitioner stated that in academic session 2009, the school was charging fee that included admission fee of Rs 3,500, annual charges of Rs 4,500 besides quarterly tuition fee, computer fee, science fee, conveyance fee and building fund amounting to total of Rs 5,000.
anil saxena
(Querist) 12 May 2013
I am living in U.P.and a public school increase 100% fee this year what will I do to stop the decision of school management
prabhakar singh
(Expert) 12 May 2013
Make parents group and file a writ in High Court.
Raj Kumar Makkad
(Expert) 15 May 2013
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