Over 500 schools barred from collecting fees from students

Updated on: Friday, October 22, 2010

Over 500 schools in several districts of Tamil Nadu, including some KV's run by the HRD ministry in the state, have been barred from collecting any fees from students.

A notification by the school fee determination committee, set up by the Tamil Nadu government, said these schools had not answered the questionaire given by the committee on the collection of fees from the students.

The committee had also directed these schools not to collect any fee from the students without their prior permission.

The Tamil Nadu government had constituted the committee, headed by A Govindarajan, a retired district judge, to fix the fees for varous schools. The committee had prescribed the fee structure of schools, taking into consideration infrastructure available in schools.

Private schools had gone to the Madras High Court, seeking a stay on the fee structure, but later the High Court vacated the stay on an appeal by the Tamil Nadu government.

Over 500 schools barred from collecting fees from students

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