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Bikaner school asks parents to clear fees pending for 8 years; threatens legal action

Hindustan Times, Bikaner | ByAparnesh Goswami
Oct 22, 2019 01:45 AM IST

According to the parents, students from economically weaker sections (EWS) were admitted to the school under the Right to Education (RTE). But the school authorities said the admissions were not under RTE and the parents were informed about this. However, they kept on delaying payment of fees.

A private school in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district has allegedly served legal notices to more than a dozen students to pay their school fees for eight years. The notice said if they did not pay the fees amounting to more than one lakh rupees, in 15 days time, legal action would follow.

The education department has ordered an inquiry into the case to examine the facts and assured the parents that no school will be permitted to charge any undue sum from the parents. (Image used for representation).(FILE PHOTO.)
The education department has ordered an inquiry into the case to examine the facts and assured the parents that no school will be permitted to charge any undue sum from the parents. (Image used for representation).(FILE PHOTO.)

According to the parents, students from economically weaker sections (EWS) were admitted to the school under the Right to Education (RTE). But the school authorities said the admissions were not under RTE and the parents were informed about this. However, they kept on delaying payment of fees.

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“The state government has not reimbursed tuition fee of these students and therefore they cannot be considered as RTE students,” the legal notice said.

The parents met the Bikaner district collector and secondary education director on Monday to complain against the legal notice.

Manoj Panwar, whose son Jaivardhan studies in Class 5 of the private school, said he applied under RTE in 2012-13 under an offline process. “After fulfilling the formalities described in the Act, I was granted admission for my son. A few days ago the school sent a note in my son’s school dairy about dues for eight years and now served me a legal notice demanding fees of over 1 lakh,” he said.

Panwar said when he objected to this, the school told him to pay the fee or face legal consequences.

Another parent, who didn’t want to be named, said his monthly income was 8,000 and that he would be unable to pay the fees. “The school has asked me to pay 1,17,520 as fees from Nursery to Class 5. I cannot afford to pay this amount,” he said.

The school said they hadn’t demanded any fee from any student admitted under the EWS category. “These parents were told that their wards were not selected as RTE beneficiaries. The school administration has been asking them to pay dues and they have been promising to pay,” said Principal Sunita Taneja.

Meanwhile, the education department has ordered an inquiry into the case to examine the facts and assured the parents that no school will be permitted to charge any undue sum from the parents, according to Nathmal Didel, director of secondary education in Rajasthan.

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