Report of the Committee on Fee Hike and Other Charges in Recognised Unaided Private Schools in Delhi (1999)

Abstract

From Chapt. 1, Introduction: It seems that the undercurrent of resentment which parents of the school going children might have been silently nurturing burst into an outrage in the year 1997 when suddenly they found themselves faced with enormous fee hike effected by the un-aided recognised private schools in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The raison d’etre advanced by the said schools was primarily the anticipated or projected increase in the pay-scales of the teaching and non-teaching staff of such schools consequent upon implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission by the Government. This was controverted by the Parents’ Bodies as sheer camouflage and sham pretext on the part of the schools on the contention that the schools were flush with such accumulated and surplus funds which could adequately offset the perceived enhancement of the financial burden on the schools.