UP Govt should learn from Delhi Govt on fee

Surprisingly and to the best of my knowledge I believe annual school fee is 3 to 4 times higher in Delhi/NCR schools as compared to schools in other states like Gujarat and Maharashtra.Practically there is no logical reason as to why there should be an existence of such huge difference at all. Land offered to the schools is subsidised and construction material and labour cost, classroom and lab assets, affiliation cost, faculty cost and petrol diesel cost for transportation, uniform, books and stationery cost, annual pay hike of parents and faculty, quality and timings of education, examination fee, annual inflation cost and other miscellaneous facilities and co-curricular activities costs are all at par with other states in India then why the difference is so hefty is beyond understood. In the absence of valid logic it seems the matter involves the vested interest of a few people otherwise it it can be rationalised and upper slab on the fee structure can be freezed vide regulations by the respective governments across Delhi and NCR. more  

i doubt that UP government / BJP government in any state is thinking to support middle class parents on fee issue, its fourth year for BJP in centre and they have not done any action against any such school in any state. more  

See Kejriwal form of functioning is never an ideal in any respect. It has been tried and tested again and again and found that if the government tries to regulate capitalism, the business folk try other methods of profit making or switch to other businesses altogether. Schools have become a business - like it or not. And the only thing that encourages people into this vocation is money. If money flow is stopped, then we would have scarcity of good teachers and schools. What can stop profiteering is mass boycott. The main and most costly part of a school is the land and infrastructure. This is available aplenty in government schools. Parents who want quality teachers should instead pool in resources and arrange to get contractual teachers and move all their children to government schools. One one hand the parents don't want their children to do anything barring B.Tech or MBBS and then expect quality teachers to be born out of nowhere. The only existing teachers are those who took up B.Ed out of no other alternative which is that the only few colleges near their town offered only B.Ed or M.Ed. I have studied in one of the top schools in my city. But at the end of the day my marksheet is the same CBSE marksheet as any government school student. Once in college or in a job, no one asks which school a person studied in. During childhood, the only feeling of deprivation I have witnessed among my circle of friends and relatives is one familly looking at another and grumbling 'they have a Cielo and we still have a Premier Padmini'. But where I work, I see such people in posts earning better income than me who had given me cultural shock when they said they had to cross a paddy field to go to school. I have never in my life actually even seen an agricultural land except when travelling in a train. So what difference has studying in an expensive school made to me? Nothing. A government school principal or the city's education board head can approve hiring temporary teachers in a government school. If parents associations get together, then the fee they pay for one student a year is enough to pay the yearly salary of a teacher. Use the government school infrastructure and run it with your own resources wherever there is a scarcity. Don't be afraid of TCs. Happily take the TC and boycott the private school. If one group of parents association in a city achieves this, this will bring about an end to profiteering and intimidation by schools. In a way what the schools say is also right - you don't want to pay, then feel free to not come to us. Some jokers keep filing cases against malls or film theatres saying that water is being sold at 50 Rs a bottle. Now given how expensive it is to maintain a multiplex, storing large quantities of water bottles that are sold at 10 Rs a bottle is not going to be profitable. They employ well educated staff who can't be obeying visitors who come asking for items worth 10 Rs. What happened eventually - after the consumer courts fined such establishments, they have completely stopped stocking water or have tied up with some strange companies that deliberately print 60 Rs on water bottles - supposedly because they are directly from the springs of Tibet. If these protesting parents had instead admitted their wards in government schools and then protested against how bad the infrastructure and quality of teachers are, they would have gotten some support or sympathy from the general population. Instead they act like they are being deprived of their right to live by private schools because if they admit their kid in any other 'low standard' school, it will reflect poorly on their social status. more  

Some formula has to be developed to regulate fee structures in private schools kksharma On Aug 26, 2017 12:16 PM, "Shalini Agarwal" wrote: > more  

More than rhecfee reductiion one very good thing that Delhi govt is doing fir school education sndcteacher training is on value education, because the education mjnister and dy chief minister is very committed on this. Some UP people should get detsils and atrend such shivirs. Inly this can improve quality of education. more