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Ranchi admin floats complaint numbers to report arbitrary fee hike by schools

RANCHI: The district administration has set up control room to receive complaints from individuals and associations regarding fee hike by schools in violation of the Jharkhand Education Tribunal (JET) guidelines.
The administration issued a landline number — 0651-2213718 — and a mobile phone number —9304306945 and said people can send complaints through e-mails too.
The decision was taken after the Jharkhand Parents Association (JPA) voiced its concerns over the fee hike by private schools of Ranchi in violation of JET norms.
JET norms mandate schools to form a committee at their level for considering fee hikes.
The committee should have representatives from the parents as well.
A person can approach the district level committee chaired by the deputy commissioner if he or she has a grievance.
Notably, Ranchi district on Friday formed the committee under JET with the deputy commissioner as the chairman, deputy education officer and district superintendent of education (DSE) as member secretaries and district transport officer as member.
A chartered accountant and two principals of private schools are also its members.
DSE Kamla Singh said, “The entire process of registering complaints and taking follow up action would start working smoothly from Monday.
The committee will inquire into the complaints and reach a decision within 60 days.” According to JET rules, schools may be asked to pay fines ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 2.5 lakh for first offence.
Earlier, JPA had met education secretary Rajesh Sharma and Ranchi DC Chhavi Ranjan and submitted a list of 17 schools which increased their fees in Ranchi.
JPA president Ajay Rai said, “We would continue our agitation for formation of committees in other districts as well.”

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