Congress on Monday gheraoed district education officer (DEO) and gave it ultimatum to ask private schools to reduce their high fee structure by June 5, 2012. The party also demanded that the schools charging excessive admission fee should be derecognised.
“The government should have taken action against private schools much earlier. About a month back, we had submitted memorandums to Collector and School Education Minister urging them to tighten noose on the private schools by constituting fee regulatory commission like that had been formed for private engineering colleges, however, no step was taken,” said DCC Raipur Urban president Inderchand Dhariwal.
He alleged that the private schools were blackmailing parents on the name of education by charging whopping admission fee. “Even admission in nursery is expensive as the parents have to shell out from Rs 30000 to Rs one lakh,” he said.
Dhariwal informed that the DEO had assured to examine the audit reports of the private schools within 15 days and would derecognise those institutes which were doing business on the name of education.
“The DEO further assured us that she would also recommend to the government to acquire the buildings of those schools which are charging building development fees,” he said.
Dhariwal categorically said that the Congress would lock the office of the DEO if the private schools would lower their fee structure.
The Congmen who gheraoed DEO on Monday were Sheikh Shakeel, Santosh Tiwari, Mamta Rai, Devendra Yadav, Ranjeet Bindra, Sunil Bazari, Virendra Dewangan, Mahavir Dewangan, Sudarshan Jain, Vimal Christian, etc.
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