Deccan Chronicle: Chennai:
Saturday, June 15, 2013.
Parents are
now taking RTI route to find out how the school fee fixation committee had
fixed fees for various schools. This is not the first time that over 500
parents will use this Act en masse to take on private schools.
Speaking to
DC on Thursday, S. Arumainathan, president, Federation of Tamil Nadu
Students’ Parents’ Welfare Association, flayed private schools fee
determination committee headed by Justice S.R. Singaravelu as it had fixed
exorbitant amounts as fees for several CBSE schools. “We were shocked when the
committee uploaded the revised fees structure on the government website. The
fee is much higher than what it had fixed last year. It is not clear how the
committee fixed such a huge amount as fees,” he said.
Pointing out
that their federation would file several petitions under the Right to
Information (RTI) Act, Arumainathan said that, as the committee had failed to
display records filed by schools, over 500 parents would file RTI petitions
with the committee for perusal of records.
“We have
already taken up to the committee several cases of schools which collected
excess fees. Schools still continue to violate the committee’s order”, he said.
“We hope to
look into the documents to ascertain whether schools have provided true details
and also crosscheck it with physical inspection. I’ve heard about how people
have succeeded in several cases with details they had received through RTI
petition.” Sunder Rajan, a parent said.
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