Delhi: Refund extra fees or govt will take over, Kejriwal warns 449 private schools
Pulling up private schools that have been served show-cause notices for overcharging students, the Delhi govt has warned it will take over 449 of them if they do not refund the extra fees within 2 weeks.
In Short
- A panel led by Justice Anil Dev Singh had identified private schools overcharging parents.
- The panel had scrutinised a total of 1,108 private unaided schools.
- Schools were served show-cause notices 4 days ago, asked to respond within 2 weeks.
Pulling up private schools that have been served show-cause notices for overcharging students, the Delhi government has warned it will take over 449 of them if they do not refund the extra fees within 2 weeks.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a press conference in nearly four months, said that his Aam Aadmi Party government did not intend to "interfere", but would surely "discipline" the schools, if needed.
The schools are among those identified by a committee headed by Justice Anil Dev Singh as having overcharged parents in the name of implementing recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who was also present, said that the show-cause notices were served four days ago with a deadline to respond within two weeks.
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"The schools will not be allowed to fleece students like they used to do under previous governments by being hand-in-glove with politicians."
"Some of them are doing good work. But if they don't implement the recommendations of the panel's report, we will take them over as a last resort," Kejriwal said.
The panel, formed last year, had scrutinised a total of 1,108 private unaided schools.
Kejriwal said that among the schools that had not rolled back the fee hike, one had a surplus of Rs 15 crore while another had a surplus of Rs 5 crore.
"I hope we don't have to take over. Today, we intend to send out a message to the managements of those schools to implement the recommendations", Kejriwal said.
Sisodia said the government was keeping a watch on everything and would verify cases where schools had claimed to have returned fees.
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