Schools selling books on exorbitant rates, parents complain

Hyderabad | Tuesday | 11th June, 2019

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Mohammed Hussainmohammedhussain.reporter@gmail.comHyderabad: Several schools are putting pressure on parents to purchase textbooks, notebooks, stationery, uniform and shoes from the shops they have set up. Since the school management does not give any option and the items are sold on exorbitant rates the parents have begun to protest. “We will hold a protest meeting in front of the Directorate of School Education office,” he said. Aparna Sathe, another parent in the city, said that many schools change school uniform almost every year and they insist that they should be bought from the school shop alone. In some schools, there are three different uniforms for students which include regular school uniform, white uniform for Saturday and sports uniform..