Siddaramaiah urges govt. to fix concessional school fee

With the State authorities’s choice to reopen major and secondary faculties from July 1, Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah has urged the federal government to fix concessional fee to be paid by dad and mom to finish the stand-off between dad and mom and school managements over the difficulty through the 2021-22 tutorial 12 months.

In a letter to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Tuesday, Mr. Siddaramaiah stated the federal government ought to take steps for strict implementation of concessional fee to be paid by dad and mom through the 2021-22 tutorial 12 months and launch of withheld salaries for educating and non-teaching employees.

Last 12 months, the federal government introduced a 30% fee minimize however many managements collected full charges, together with transportation fee, from dad and mom owing to poor enforcement of the order. The authorities shouldn’t succumb to the foyer of personal instructional managements, the Congress chief stated.

With regard to loans borrowed by non-public school managements from banks, he urged the federal government to take into account the difficulty of waiver of curiosity through the pandemic months.

Owing to the pandemic, kids had not gone to faculties/schools for the reason that final tutorial 12 months. Many non-public school and school managements had not paid salaries to lecturers claiming that they’d not carried out lessons. Many lecturers who’ve been going through extreme monetary difficulties began working as wage labourers underneath the MGNREGA scheme and have been promoting fruit and veggies, the previous Chief Minister stated.

Till now, there was no readability on the fee of concessional fee by dad and mom for the tutorial 12 months 2021-22 and this led to protests by dad and mom in entrance of faculties in Bengaluru and different cities, he stated and urged the federal government to challenge an order fixing the quantity to be paid by dad and mom.