Mumbai: The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday decided to publish direction to private schools in the state to reduce the cost of 15% in this academic year to facilitate the financial impact of the covid pandemic on households.
Government notification is expected soon.
The Minister of School Education Varsha Gaikwad said the guidelines would be issued for schools where parents had paid costs for this year.
For those who have not paid, the school must collect 15% less, he said.
This step came a week after the Supreme Court on July 22 directed the country to consider his assessment at Rajasthan schools to reduce costs by 15%.
‘It is not clear if the cost of time or tuition fees will be reduced.
The instructions came in response to the petition leaving specifically by parents against March 1, the order of the Bombay High Court remained a grasia 8 May 2020 looking for a cost reduction.
Granced by the Unaided school forum.
However, S C Kedia, Secretary of the Forum, said the latest decisions will also be legally challenged by the forum.
He said according to the cost regulation law, the state did not have the power to regulate costs.
There are more than 1,100 private schools in Maharashtra.
On Tuesday, the parents’ association had met with the recommendation committee of the Amendment of the State Constitution Regulations to discuss various problems.
Parents complain children rejected online lessons, transfer certificates and marked paid fees.
Parents complain that even though there are physical schools closed, they are forced to pay exorbitant fees.
Gaikwad said on Wednesday that decisive action would be taken against schools that did not follow orders to cut costs.
However, the president of the forum for justice in education, Jayant Jain, said there was no clarity about whether the tuition fees would decrease or term costs.
“Private schools are conducting online classes with minimum teachers.
Many teacher contracts have not been updated,” Jain said, justifying the needs of the school to continue the cost reduction.
The guardian of a group of schools said the school conditions assisted were “sad” because the funds did not last time from the country.
Private schools can provide quality education simply because the costs are used to hire quality teachers, said Trustee.
Ketan Joshi, Secretary Brahman Shikshan Mandal, Thane, said the agency reduced a cost of 30% at 2020-21.
“Even after reducing costs, more than 50%, parents don’t pay.
We need a certain amount to run the Institute,” Joshi said.
He added that this year they have reduced the cost of 15%.
“The cabinet decision about the cost reduction is Eyewash.
Last year, the reduction of grar costs was challenged in the High Court,” said Advocate Anubha Sahai, President of the Indian parents’ association.
He said the mechanism to approach the district cost regulation committee (DRFCS) defects.
“Parents must get Rs 100 stamp paper, form a group and then approach the DFRCS,” Sahai said.