Parents to seek court aid over HC order on fee hike
Students and parents associations plan to approach either the Madras high court or the Supreme Court seeking it to quash the high court verdict allowing 400 private matriculation schools in the state to collect 15 per cent more fee than that fixed by the state school fee fixation committee.
Parents associations, however, said that the judgement does not provide much relief to them.
“After going through the Madras high court order our federation will decide whether to appeal to the Supreme Court.
We anyway plan to take this to the Justice Singaravelu Fee Fixation Committee,” said S. Arumainathan, president, Federation of Tamil Nadu Students-Parents Welfare Association.
Meanwhile, hundreds of private matriculation schools also plan to knock at the court’s door seeking a similar verdict in their case too.
School managements welcomed the high court judgement, saying that the verdict would provide relief to the institutions.
N. Vijayan, general secretary, Federation of Matriculation Schools in Tamil Nadu and one of the petitioners in the case, said that the state government spends Rs 14,500 for each student in a government school but refuses to allow us charge the fee.
Schools are hopeful that the committee would increase the fee based on the review ordered by the court.
One of the school administrators said on condition of anonymity that as the Madras high court delivered a positive verdict for 400 schools that filed the case, several hundreds of other schools also planned to approach the high court to seek it to grant the same 15 per cent hike and review of their fee structure too.
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