Indian financial consultant Waqar Khan has seen his income drop by about one-fifth since the COVID-19 pandemic began. When his younger son’s private school raised fees by 10 percent this year, he had no choice but to move him to the state system.
With three children and living in a small house in the capital, New Delhi, the 45-year-old can no longer afford private school fees for his boy of 10. He moved his older boy into a state school early last year.
“I had no option,” Khan told Reuters, adding that rising education costs had come on top of a nearly