Summary:
The authority is the nodal agency to look into grievances related to excess fees charged by private schools. According to distraught parents, schools are charging anywhere between ?5,000 and ?30,000 for a year to pay for extra-curricular activities and textbooks. With no access to funds, many parents have taken a loan to pay school managements, who have allegedly refused to admit students if they can’t meet the expenses. more-inFor many parents, the dream of obtaining an RTE quota seat in a private school was short-lived, as several schools reportedly asked them cough up money, not as tuition fees but for other heads, such as extra-curricular activities, textbooks and stationery. In the first round, around 97,000 parents admitted their children in seats under the quota..