Don't pay hiked school fees: Kadiyam Srihari

HYDERABAD: A delegation of the Hyderabad School Parents Association (HSPA) met education minister Kadiyam Srihari on Wednesday to complain against schools hiking fees in violation of the government order.

Sources said that the minister told parents not to pay the hiked fees and advised them to show the status-quo circular of the education department if schools demanded extra fees for admissions.

The minister also told the parents that the government was doing its best to regulate the fee structure of schools but suggested that they too needed to cooperate by being firm in not succumbing to pressure from schools. He asked the HSPA to continue the fight against the fee hike and make it a national movement. 

After the meeting, HSPA member Seema Agarwal said, “We told the minister that most of the schools had gone ahead and increased fees totally ignoring the government orders. We see such action by schools as a direct assault on the authority of the government and hope that that the government will initiate strong action them, even if it means derecognition of some schools or withdrawal of their NOCs.”