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Government will take action on erring schools
Posted on: 09/Jun/2011 1:50:23 AM
The State government is prepared to take action against schools that collect excessive fees, School Education minister C Ve Shanmugam told the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday.
Referring to observations of S. John Jacob (Congress) and A. Ganesh Kumar (Pattali Makkal Katchi) in the Assembly , Mr. Shanmugam recalled that when K. Govindarajan headed the committee, it had stipulated the fee structure. Later, the Madras High Court held that the amount collected over and above the prescribed fee should be regarded as deposit.
The appeal of some schools for revision was pending before the Committee, currently headed by K. Raviraja Pandian. Till this matter is disposed of, the fee structure will hold good.
Noting that several State government-aided schools were charging arbitrarily higher fees without proper receipts, NS Venkatraman, trustee of NGO Nandini Voice for the Deprived, asked that the government stem these actions with an iron hand.The State government should open a complaint cell to receive complaints on the matter from students and parents while protecting the complainant’s identity.
