Kolkata: The three-week period that the Calcutta High Court has enabled parents who fail to pay at least 50% of the arrears of pending tuition fees ending on Fridays and city schools now began to compile their list of allowed to pay.
Lawyers of these schools will submit names of absent with the details of their arrears to court before September 2, when the next hearing is likely to occur.
Order August 6 HC has asked parents to pay at least 50% of arrears within three weeks after notifying individual parents about their payment status.
There are some parents who have cleaned the part of their backlog.
However, there are still hundreds left to clean their contributions, the school said, despite repeated reminders.
However, the group of parents, the allegation that many people had paid their contributions after the court order and because the figure did not match what the school had compiled, the latter still considered them absent.
They also prepare a list of parents who have “cleaned up” their contributions with detailed calculations to be handed over to HC.
Some schools have decided to wait until the end of the month before compiling their defraugter list, by saying they received requests from parents to wait for their salary to be credited later this month.
Many schools say parents not only failed in the last academic session but continued the trend of this academic session too.
“We have about 500-plus default parents in three schools.
We allow them to the end of the month to clean up at least 50% of contributions after the court order and then will compile a list on September 1,” said Brigadier VN Chaturvedi, spokesman for Birla High School (Two campuses) and sushila) and Sushila School Birla Girls.
High numbers at La Martiniere school too.
About 1,000 parents must pay and the school is compiling the last list on Monday to be submitted to the lawyer.
“We have sent written reminders to parents.
On Monday, our list will be resolved,” said Supriyo Dhar, Secretary of the Second School.
“Many parents deliberately do not pay even though government employees who have not been exposed to a pandemic.
They took advantage of the court order,” said Sourav Bhagat, a school lawyer such as the South Point and MP Birl Foundation.