Saturday, 11 September 2021 | PNS | Nainital
The Uttarakhand high court has directed the state government to take a decision within two months on the fee hike of poor children studying in private schools under the Right To Education Act. The high court single bench of Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma issued this direction while hearing on a petition filed regarding this issue in the court.
According to the case details, a Haldwani based education society had filed the petition in the high court stating that it has been providing education to children for the past many years. However, the fee has not been revised for about 10 years now.
The petition further states that on enquiring from the state government, it was learnt from the Education department that a meeting had been held in January this year after which a committee had been formed under the Finance secretary to take a decision on this issue. The petition further states that despite an annual expenditure of about Rs 16,000, the fee has not been hiked so far. The petitioner has sought an increase in the expenditure per student.
