Flouting rules, Private Schools continue to charge hefty ‘admission fee’ in Bandipora
Authorities seems helpless
Suhail Rather
Bandipora, 07 March: Many schools in Bandipora has charged admission fee of at least Rs 15000 and on top it, no receipt has been provided, parents said on tuesday. “I was told that admission fee is mandatory and asked to deposit Rs 10000. I transfer the amount but the school authorities didnot provide me any receipt for it,” a parent said. “All other parents were made to pay the same or more amounts without providing any receipt.”
Asked if the parents did not seek a proper receipt, he said: “The school administration said that no receipt is provided and handed over admission card instead.”
Chief Education Bandipora said that a stringent action will be taken against the schools.
All schools seem to have adopted same modus oprendi by not providing receipt against the payments, possibly to dodge the authorities. Most of the parents said that they made the payments in order to secure the admission of their wards and did not seek the receipt for fear reprisal and punishment to tender wards by the school authorities.
The parents urged the authorities to ask school managements to issue clear notification that they have not charged any fee from guardians in lieu of admission fee and if so charged, same has been returned.
