After Delhi government issued a show-cause notice to 449 private schools of Delhi giving them two weeks to refund excess fees charged, many schools in the city have started issuing public notices in newspapers, asking parents to take the fee refund.

Comment of Education Minister's adviser regarding fee hike

"These schools have been sent notices in the past, yet they are not complying. We have two options as per rules. Either take over the school or derecognise them. The second option will leave hundreds of students without a school so the government has decided to take them over," said Atishi Marlena, adviser to education minister Manish Sisodia in a recent HT report.

The 449 schools, which include some of top private schools, have to refund over Rs 300 crore to the parents, Marlena added.

At present, over 150 private schools have started returning the excess fee to parents.

Further, many schools, including Sardar Patel Vidhyalaya in Lodhi Estate, Oxford Public School in Nehru Nagar, Heera Public School in Gurgaon and Smt Misri Devi Gyan Niketan School in Deenpur, have issued the notices in newspapers, asking parents to collect the refund by September 5, according to a report in Outlook.

Meanwhile, around 70 schools out of the total have submitted the excess fee amount to Delhi High Court.

Further, the excess fee amount is being given through cheques to parents.

Few schools approach Delhi HC

As reported by TOI, a few big private schools like DPS Mathura Road and Springdales Pusa Road have approached the court separately over the issue and are waiting for its decision before making any payments.

"There is a PIL that we have filed in court and are waiting for a decision. We have the amount ready with us. The hearing is next month, and action will be taken on the direction of the court," said Principal Manohar Lal in a recent TOI report.

List of schools have started making the payment to the court:

DPS Vasant Kunj, DPS Dwarka, KR Mangalam World School, Summerfields School, Sanskriti School, among others, have started paying back the extra cash.

Moreover, the schools are the ones identified by a committee headed by Justice Anil Dev Singh as having overcharged parents on the pretext of implementing recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.

Here's what Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said:

"Some of them are doing good work. But if they don't implement the recommendations of the panel's report then we will take them over as a last resort," said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Kejriwal.

Last year also, the panel had scrutinised a total of 1,108 private unaided schools.

Kejriwal said among the schools that have not rolled back the fee hike, one had a surplus of Rs 15 crore while another had Rs 5 crore surplus.

"I hope we don't have to take over. Today, we intend to send out a message to the managements of those schools to implement the recommendations," Kejriwal added.

Furthermore, CBSE chairman R K Chaturvedi said that fees charged by the schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education should be as per the norms fixed by the state government.

"Our affiliation by-laws say the fee should be commensurate with infrastructure and facilities offered by the school. The quantum of fee should be on par with the (respective) state government's norms," said Chaturvedi.

(With inputs from PTI)

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