Ahmedabad: Since the class, many students shift from private schools to government-managed schools due to financial stress caused by a pandemic.
Little Arman in Jamnagar was not lucky enough to have a smooth transfer to a government school.
His father had to try a legal battle for a year with a school for the certificate to leave his school so he could enter the government school, and this only happened after the intervention of the consumer court.
According to the detailed case, a resident of Jamnagar, Chand Alam Ansari decided to move his son Arman, a 3rd grade student at St Francis School, to the government school after locking.
In July 2020, he asked for school to give a certificate to leave school.
Ansari told school that it had started teaching online but he only had one Android phone.
He was unable to pay fees and wanted to shift the child to a government school.
Private schools asked Ansari to pay fees for the period March to July, but Ansari refused, saying that his son was not taught anything at locking.
The school refused certificates and children could not be treated at a government school.
Ansari drags school management to Jamnagar Regency consumer disputes negotiations that accuse the deficiency in service and seek direction to school to issue a certificate.
He also demanded compensation from school for wasting his son’s time by not issuing a certificate.
School management, on the other hand, insisted that Ansari’s son got an entrance ticket for the 2020-21 academic year.
For the certificate, Ansari first pays Rs 5,400 as a cost for the last quarter, which he has not done.
After hearing this case, in August, the district commission concluded by not issuing certificates to leave school, schools have shown shortcomings in services.
But it was also held that Ansari was responsible for paying fees.
The commission found a way out, and ordered Ansari to pay Rs 5,400 to school but also directed the school to pay Rs 1,400 to Ansari as compensation not to issue certificates and rs of 4,000 extra rs for legal expenditure that must be incurred.
Commission, in this way, settled an account.
It was unacceptable by private schools and appealed in the disputes of Gujarat state consumer negotiations against the regency commission order, but did not succeed.
School appeal was rejected in the last week of October.