Jaipur: For more than 15 months, the school has been closed because of the pandemic that has influenced them financially with many bankruptcy owners.
The school owner still faces problems, especially in paying rent, electricity bills, and teacher salaries with no more than 40% of parents pay fees.
In small schools, where middle-class or lower middle class students, the situation is worse.
Mukesh Gandhi, Director of Gandhi Baal Niketan School in Dher to Balaji, Jaipur, “No more than 40% of parents have paid fees.
The situation will not change until the school is open.” Most of these schools have a ranging fee from Rs 300 per month to RS 2,000 per month.
On the other hand, Jaipur’s famous schools where the cost takes place to Lakh Rupee a year in a better position with the majority of parents paying fees.
Seema Bardhwaj, Director of Blooming Sound School in Behror, said that they were in deep debt but could not start other businesses to survive because students would be left behind.
He said that unless the school opened again, the situation would not change.
In rural areas of Rajasthan, the situation is even more difficult.
In the Nawa district of the Nagaur district, parents have not even paid 10% of the school fees.
The day of Om Sharma, the principal, said that parents did not even send their children to online classes because they knew that the costs must be paid.
Therefore, private schools have demanded the opening of all classes but experts believe that the opening of the wise phase will be better.