Delhi HC issues notice to Centre, others on fee hike by private schools

3/26/2009 The Delhi High Court issued notices to the Centre, the Delhi government and to the Secretary of its Education Department to explain their stand on recent fee hike by the private schools. After hearing a petition filed by NGO Abhibhavak Mahasangh, which challenged the recent fee hike by private schools, a bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the respondents to file their replies by April 29. The Delhi Abhibhavak Mahasangh, aided by NGO Social Jurist, challenged the Directorate of Educations (DE) notification on the grounds that it violated the orders of the Supreme Court as well as the High Court that the accounts of each school be examined before they are allowed to raise the fee. The schools have been demanding up to 50 per cent hike in tuition fee in order to implement the Sixth Pay Commissions recommendations on teachers salaries and arrears. The DE had created five slabs based on the existing tuition fee in schools, allowing them a maximum fee hike of Rs 500 but all schools have hiked their fees by many folds.

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