KNB News Desk
Srinagar 05 June (KNB): Parents whose children are studying in different private schools of Srinagar on Saturday said that they are being told to pay outstanding dues of their wards when everyone has been financially affected during the Pandemic.
The parents said that the schools are asking them to pay the fee when some among them are working in private sectors, which has been bearing the brunt of the Covid.
One of the parents, residing in Srinagar’s Rajbagh, said that a private school (name withheld) is telling him to pay fees for his ward, taking online classes for some time. “School should at least deduct the fees because the children have not studied the way they would during their physical classes,” he said.
“We are in a trying time, and the schools are continuously telling us to pay fees. They must think about the parents and the conditions we are in exacerbated by the Covid,” another parent said.
Regarding the parents query if not to waive off or at least deduct some amount in fee, Director School Education Kashmir (DSEK) Dr Tasaduq Hussain Mir inferred of having issue under consideration and said: “Monitoring cells have been reconstituted in Chief Education Officers’ offices headed by deputy CEOs and they are looking after it.”
Mir also said that they had yesterday issued a circular and have mentioned all things in it.
Pertinently, one of the sections of the circular clearly reads that the Private Educational Institutions are not implementing the Administrative Department and Fee Fixation Committee orders, which as per Mir, are related to the queries of the parents. (KNB)