Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Apr 24: Bending under constant pressure exerted by the management of private schools in the state, the state government has permitted them to collect the fee for the next academic year from financially sound parents.

The private educational institutions had been asking the government permission to collect the fee for the next academic year from the parents, as they find it hard to disburse salary to teaching and non-teaching staff. Considering their plea, the government has passed this order.

Giving information about the change in government's stance, minister for primary and secondary education S Suresh Kumar, said that the management of the schools have been barred from forcibly collecting the fee from parents who are not in a position to pay it, and those parents who refuse to pay the fee for the present. He also warned that schools which put pressure on the parents to pay the fee now will be acted against without bias.

S Suresh Kumar

The government had taken the stand that schools could not admit students until the beginning of the next academic year in the backdrop of lockdown in force. It had warned the schools of cancelling their recognition if they violate government instructions.

Associated Managements of Primary and Secondary schools in Karnataka (KAMS), has welcomed the decision of the government that has allowed schools to collect the fee. Its general secretary D Shashikumar, has requested educational institutions not to pressurize the parents to pay the fee now if they are unwilling.