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| Diktats of private schools irk parents | | Expensive books, uniforms burn pockets; authorities unmoved | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 5: Private schools asking students to buy books from a particular shop at an exorbitant rate has irked the parents.
Early Times spoke to parents in Jammu and all of them were up in arms against the diktats of the management of private schools. “Schools have directed the children to buy the books from particular shops and these are being sold at exorbitant rates.
A set of books costs anything between Rs 3000/ to Rs 7000/,” said a parent.
She said, “It’s becoming difficult to provide education to two to three children in the family as the books and uniforms have become very expensive and the fees being charged by these schools is too high.”
President of J&K Private Schools Parents Association said, “Parents are being looted and the Education Department is acting as a mute spectator. No one is coming forward to break the nexus of fee, uniforms and books.”
“The set of books prescribed by NCERT costs Rs 800/ but the same is being sold for Rs 5000/. It seems all the officials of the Education Department are in slumber,” Kapoor added.
“Schools are becoming shopping hubs. In New Delhi schools were derecognized for charging extra fees. But in J&K no action is being taken and an opportunity is being provided to the schools to loot the parents,” Kapoor said. |
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