Education in India has been subjected to severe criticism mostly due to the inadequacies of certain people and their working and the recent example has come into light where an NGO named social jurists filed a petition against a few schools which unnecessarily hiked school fees without considering the rightful act of giving the teaching staff its deserving part of salary.
Upon receiving this petition, Delhi High Court set up a committee back in 2011 to go through the financial records of several private schools to check whether they had duly complied with the government’s order regarding legitimate fee hike in 2009. The committee randomly selected 700-odd schools’ financial records and was taken aback to see that almost 41 schools had hiked unfair amount of school fee and have been asked to refund the same amount along with the minimum interest of 9 percent to the parents.
A few schools are required to go through certain orders coming directly from the Director of Education. While the others are asked to refund the money along with interest.
After this incident, the Delhi High Court is expected to implement stringent rules to ensure that these non-profit organizations do not undue advantage from the society in terms of anything that has to do with education.
Education in India is suffering from various loopholes and everyone is familiar with the fact that how government funded schools suffer from various loopholes and the startling revelation of how private schools are no less in exploiting the students and parents alike testifies to the fact that the system needs certain strict impositions as soon as possible.
Out of 1172 schools, 41 have come out with this allegation and this might open some more records of various other schools as well. This way, those who have been doing some unjust business might also get a good lesson from this recent news.
