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NOIDA: A parents’ body All Noida School Parents’ Association (ANSPA) on Tuesday said that they would make an appeal in the Allahabad high court that schools in the state should charge only tuition fee for online-only classes.
The move is in response to a Supreme Court order issued on May 3. The SC had directed Rajasthan government to rationalise school fees. It said, “In law, the school management cannot be heard to collect fees in respect of activities and facilities which are, in fact, not provided to or availed of by its students due to circumstances beyond their control.”
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NOIDA: The District Fee Regulation Committee (DFRC) of GB Nagar has not held a single meeting in the past one year. The DFRC has also not responded to any RTI query sent by parents, claimed All Noida School Parents’ Association (ANSPA). The last meeting of the DFRC, Noida, was held in February 2020.
The DFRC, which was constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government in 2018 to regulate fee hikes by private schools, was supposed to meet frequently to take up parents’ complaints against schools and facilitate face-to-face meetings between parents and school authorities to resolve the issues.
During lockdown, when several schools started protesting against irregularities and fee hikes, DFRC did not hold any meeting virtually or physically.
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NOIDA: A Class 7 student of a Noida school was allegedly barred from online classes and removed from the class WhatsApp group for not paying fees during the lockdown.
Similar treatment was also claimed to have been meted out to a Class 8 student of a major school in Ghaziabad. She too was allegedly stopped from attending e-classes. She failed to pay the fees after her father lost his job.
A government order issued during the lockdown had stated that schools cannot stop online classes over non-payment of fees. However, many parents have lodged complaints with the education officers of Noida and Ghaziabad claiming their wards were denied classes.