Ordinance on school fees by March,State to HC

Updated on: Saturday, January 08, 2011

The Maharashtra government on Thursday informed the Bombay high court that it is likely to issue an ordinance to regulate the procedure of school fee hike before the March 2011 assembly session. Assistant government pleader (AGP) Rajesh Behre made the statement while the court was hearing a petition filed by the Students Welfare Association, Kharghar. The association has been protesting against unjustified and illegal fee hike made by the Association of International Schools and Principals Foundation and Private Unaided Schools Forum.

The petitioners lawyer, Anil Anturkar, argued that the Prohibition of Capitation Fee Act 1987 which gives the state powers to regulate excess fees of aided and unaided school has not been implemented even two decades later. Anturkar also argued that the high court, in March 2000, had directed that before hiking fees, schools will consult their parent-teachers association. He also informed the court that recently HC struck down two government resolutions of 1999 and July 15, 2010, related to regulating fees of private unaided schools.

Ordinance on school fees by March,State to HC

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