Formally known as Indian Parents Welfare Association
13/384, CIVILLINES, KANPUR
Mob.: 9389132555
idealpwa@gmail.com, idealpwa.blogspot.com
To,
The District Magistrate Sir,
President
District Fee Regulatory Advisory Committee
Kanpur
Subject: Proposed Recommendations for the District Fee Regulatory Advisory Committee
Dear Sir,
We recommend the following as model proposal to be decided by the committee constituted under you able leadership for the ICSE,CBSE and UP Board Schools of Kanpur with respect to the fee & various other factors that can be charged by private schools
1. Private School fee has been divided into three basic parts as:
a) One time fee (registration, admission, security caution deposit)
b) Annual recurring academic/ tuition fee and
c) Optional annual user fee.
2. One time Fee:
Several schools are collecting an amounts ranging from Rs 1,000 to Rs 15,000 just for the admission & application form. Since this is only administrative task the application cost should be less than Rs 100. Admission fee should not be more than Rs 500, as this entail only minor administrative cost. Schools should not collect a caution deposit of more than Rs 1,000 and it has to be refundable.
3. Annually recurring academic/ tuition fee:
No private schools in the town should be allowed to collect more than Rs 12,000 per annum for students up to Class V and Rs 18,000 per annum for students from Class VI to XII. These are upper ceilings and a specific fee for a school is applicable based on the infrastructure, facilities, education pattern, experience of teachers and more importantly the income/expenditure statement etc. This should be also read in conjunction with point 11, 13, 14 where School governing Council and PTA has lot of control to see a regulated fee hike, if necessary.
4. All cost heads like excursion, sport, activities, computer etc should be a part of this academic / tuition fee. Seeing the accounts of even several hi-end corporate schools, the even in most expensive schools, the genuine monthly education expenses are not more than Rs 1000 – Rs 1500 per month per child. School should also consider all future growth, expansion plan and add all such related capital expenditures as a part of school annual operating cost. These developmental costs can’t be more than 10% of the overall school operating cost for basic education and should be a part of the above mentioned tuition fee.
5. This fee should be collected in phases/ monthly\ bimonthly terms.
6. In rural areas, this upper ceiling of tuition fee should be fixed at Rs 12,000 per annum for all classes I-XII.
7. Optional Annual User fee: To be collected in phases/ terms, this includes fee for heads like transport, food, books, uniform and hostel. They are kept outside of the upper ceiling for Annual tuition fee. They are expected to be provided by all schools, however they are termed as a “user” fee, as the student/ parents can use these services, if they find suitable/ logical. These services should be optional and should operate at no-profit basis.
8. For all books and Stationary, school uniform, sports dresses including accessories, school should publish the address details of at least 5 shops, where these are available openly and competitively for parents’ comfort. School can arrange to have a counter for sell of books and stationery's, school uniform and accessories (not mandatory and optional facility) in the school campus, only if they are being sold at very competitive market prices and should bear huge discount on the MRP.
9. The User fee would be decided based on usage i.e. transportation fee should be charged based on the distance between the house & school and not by the management’s whims and fancies.
10. Fee revision Process: The Annually recurring academic/ tuition fee structure can be revised only once in 3 years.
11. Schools should also give official fee receipts in the name of the school only.
12. Governance Structure: The panel recommended Constitution of district-level fee regulatory committees. If the school management wants to increase the fee, it will have to seek the approval of this fee regulatory authority with collector, joint collector, DIOS, Finance resource (who can audit school balance sheets) and other officials as members.
13. The committee has reiterated that as defined in existing GO , there should be a Governing council in every school that includes 2 representatives from parents association, 2 teachers and 2 management representatives(in which one should be the principal of the school). As already defined in existing GO, an active Parent Teacher Association (PTA) should be constituted for every school and it should be consulted on the fee hike as a first step. PTA should review and discuss hiked fee based on income and expense statement. The fee hike proposed can’t be hiked more than the increase in Consumer Price Index as inflation can still be negative, while the CPI may be positive. Even considering CPI, this increase can’t be more than 10% over previous fee, on a maximum side.
14. Optional Annual user fee structure also needs to follow the review with PTA and School Governing council and a need based increase based on income and expense statement.
15. Based on PTA’s positive acceptance, the Governing council, as mentioned above, should approach the district fee regulatory authority with all the accounts on income and expenditure based on which district fee regulatory authority should approve the hike. Once approved, this fee will remain applicable for 3 years and can’t be changed in any circumstances.
16. If PTA does not agree with the recommended level of hike (as the income and expense statement may not support the necessary hike), then the PTA can raise the complaint with the district-level fee regulatory committee in this context.
17. Aggrieved parents are also entitled to approach the fee regulatory committee, if they have any grievances pertaining to fees.
18. Time-table: The Governing councils should approach the fee regulatory authority by September and a decision will be taken by the authority by December every year. The hiked fee will come into force during the next academic year. For an example, the Governing councils should approach the district fee regulatory authority by September 2009 and a decision should be taken by the district fee regulatory authority by December 2009. The hiked fee will come into force during the next academic year April 2010 till March 2011 and will remain applicable till March 2013. In Sept 2012, the School Governing Council can start the process again, if a hike is needed.
19. Enforcement: In case of district fee regulatory committee finds any anomaly in implementing these suggestions, the affiliation of school can be terminated. In case of CBSE/ IGCSE affiliated school, the NOC issued by District Education department can be withheld.
20. Applicability of these recommendations in current year’s context: The expert panel of the parent association recommended that the fee prescribed for the last academic year (2008-09) would stand good for this year (2009-10). All private schools should roll back the hiked fee for this year. In case parents have already paid the hiked fee, the extra amount will have to be adjusted in the coming academic year.
21. General: Schools will have do away with names such as “concept schools”, “techno schools” etc. They should be named as primary, upper primary, high schools and public schools.
Thanking You,
Yours truly,
For Ideal Parents welfare Association
General Secretary Treasurer President
Copy to : 1. CDO Kanpur
2. DIOS, Kanpur
13/384, CIVILLINES, KANPUR
Mob.: 9389132555
idealpwa@gmail.com, idealpwa.blogspot.com
To,
The District Magistrate Sir,
President
District Fee Regulatory Advisory Committee
Kanpur
Subject: Proposed Recommendations for the District Fee Regulatory Advisory Committee
Dear Sir,
We recommend the following as model proposal to be decided by the committee constituted under you able leadership for the ICSE,CBSE and UP Board Schools of Kanpur with respect to the fee & various other factors that can be charged by private schools
1. Private School fee has been divided into three basic parts as:
a) One time fee (registration, admission, security caution deposit)
b) Annual recurring academic/ tuition fee and
c) Optional annual user fee.
2. One time Fee:
Several schools are collecting an amounts ranging from Rs 1,000 to Rs 15,000 just for the admission & application form. Since this is only administrative task the application cost should be less than Rs 100. Admission fee should not be more than Rs 500, as this entail only minor administrative cost. Schools should not collect a caution deposit of more than Rs 1,000 and it has to be refundable.
3. Annually recurring academic/ tuition fee:
No private schools in the town should be allowed to collect more than Rs 12,000 per annum for students up to Class V and Rs 18,000 per annum for students from Class VI to XII. These are upper ceilings and a specific fee for a school is applicable based on the infrastructure, facilities, education pattern, experience of teachers and more importantly the income/expenditure statement etc. This should be also read in conjunction with point 11, 13, 14 where School governing Council and PTA has lot of control to see a regulated fee hike, if necessary.
4. All cost heads like excursion, sport, activities, computer etc should be a part of this academic / tuition fee. Seeing the accounts of even several hi-end corporate schools, the even in most expensive schools, the genuine monthly education expenses are not more than Rs 1000 – Rs 1500 per month per child. School should also consider all future growth, expansion plan and add all such related capital expenditures as a part of school annual operating cost. These developmental costs can’t be more than 10% of the overall school operating cost for basic education and should be a part of the above mentioned tuition fee.
5. This fee should be collected in phases/ monthly\ bimonthly terms.
6. In rural areas, this upper ceiling of tuition fee should be fixed at Rs 12,000 per annum for all classes I-XII.
7. Optional Annual User fee: To be collected in phases/ terms, this includes fee for heads like transport, food, books, uniform and hostel. They are kept outside of the upper ceiling for Annual tuition fee. They are expected to be provided by all schools, however they are termed as a “user” fee, as the student/ parents can use these services, if they find suitable/ logical. These services should be optional and should operate at no-profit basis.
8. For all books and Stationary, school uniform, sports dresses including accessories, school should publish the address details of at least 5 shops, where these are available openly and competitively for parents’ comfort. School can arrange to have a counter for sell of books and stationery's, school uniform and accessories (not mandatory and optional facility) in the school campus, only if they are being sold at very competitive market prices and should bear huge discount on the MRP.
9. The User fee would be decided based on usage i.e. transportation fee should be charged based on the distance between the house & school and not by the management’s whims and fancies.
10. Fee revision Process: The Annually recurring academic/ tuition fee structure can be revised only once in 3 years.
11. Schools should also give official fee receipts in the name of the school only.
12. Governance Structure: The panel recommended Constitution of district-level fee regulatory committees. If the school management wants to increase the fee, it will have to seek the approval of this fee regulatory authority with collector, joint collector, DIOS, Finance resource (who can audit school balance sheets) and other officials as members.
13. The committee has reiterated that as defined in existing GO , there should be a Governing council in every school that includes 2 representatives from parents association, 2 teachers and 2 management representatives(in which one should be the principal of the school). As already defined in existing GO, an active Parent Teacher Association (PTA) should be constituted for every school and it should be consulted on the fee hike as a first step. PTA should review and discuss hiked fee based on income and expense statement. The fee hike proposed can’t be hiked more than the increase in Consumer Price Index as inflation can still be negative, while the CPI may be positive. Even considering CPI, this increase can’t be more than 10% over previous fee, on a maximum side.
14. Optional Annual user fee structure also needs to follow the review with PTA and School Governing council and a need based increase based on income and expense statement.
15. Based on PTA’s positive acceptance, the Governing council, as mentioned above, should approach the district fee regulatory authority with all the accounts on income and expenditure based on which district fee regulatory authority should approve the hike. Once approved, this fee will remain applicable for 3 years and can’t be changed in any circumstances.
16. If PTA does not agree with the recommended level of hike (as the income and expense statement may not support the necessary hike), then the PTA can raise the complaint with the district-level fee regulatory committee in this context.
17. Aggrieved parents are also entitled to approach the fee regulatory committee, if they have any grievances pertaining to fees.
18. Time-table: The Governing councils should approach the fee regulatory authority by September and a decision will be taken by the authority by December every year. The hiked fee will come into force during the next academic year. For an example, the Governing councils should approach the district fee regulatory authority by September 2009 and a decision should be taken by the district fee regulatory authority by December 2009. The hiked fee will come into force during the next academic year April 2010 till March 2011 and will remain applicable till March 2013. In Sept 2012, the School Governing Council can start the process again, if a hike is needed.
19. Enforcement: In case of district fee regulatory committee finds any anomaly in implementing these suggestions, the affiliation of school can be terminated. In case of CBSE/ IGCSE affiliated school, the NOC issued by District Education department can be withheld.
20. Applicability of these recommendations in current year’s context: The expert panel of the parent association recommended that the fee prescribed for the last academic year (2008-09) would stand good for this year (2009-10). All private schools should roll back the hiked fee for this year. In case parents have already paid the hiked fee, the extra amount will have to be adjusted in the coming academic year.
21. General: Schools will have do away with names such as “concept schools”, “techno schools” etc. They should be named as primary, upper primary, high schools and public schools.
Thanking You,
Yours truly,
For Ideal Parents welfare Association
General Secretary Treasurer President
Copy to : 1. CDO Kanpur
2. DIOS, Kanpur
I FIND THAT A CRUCIAL POINT IS MISSING IN THIS POST :-
ReplyDeleteI WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THE FACILITIES OFFERED BY THE SCHOOLS ARE NOT ADEQUATE ENOUGH TO SUPPORT THE HUGE STUDENT STRENGTH THEY HAVE CREATED. WE ARE SENDING OUR CHILDREN TO THESE SCHOOLS BECAUSE THEY CLAIM TO PROVIDE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILDRED BY TEACHING THEM AND DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS IN OTHER FIELDS LIKE ARTS, MUSIC, SPORTS, COMPUTER SCIENCE ETC.
I FEEL THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AS IT HELPS THE CHILDREN TO DISCOVER THEIR OWN TALENT AND PURSUE THEM AS A CAREER IN FUTURE.
ALTHOUGH THE SCHOOLS ARE OFFERING WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES BUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOT ADEQUATE TO PROVIDE SUFFICIENT FACILITIES AND PROPERLY EXECUTE THEM. FOR EXAMPLE :-
1. DPS AZADNAGAR HAS ONE SWIMMING POOL, BUT IF YOU PICK UP THE RECORD OF PREVIOUS YEARS THE STUDENTS HAVE BEEN GIVEN JUST ENOUGH TIME TO GO AND TAKE A DIP IN IT LEAVE ASIDE SWIMMING AND TEACHING THE STUDENTS TO SWIM. THE ACTIVITY IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS IN ZERO PERIOD ALSO.
2. THE SCHOOL IS PROVIDING ONE PERIOD OF 40 MINUTES FOR TWO SECTIONS OF CLASS VIII IN A WEEK, APPROX 90 STUDENTS ARE THERE ON ONE FIELD TO TRY THEIR CHANCE TO PLAY. ONLY STUDENTS WHO ARE ALREADY VERY GOOD IN THAT SPORT GET CHANCE OR ONLY FAVOURITE CHILD OF THE GAMES TEACHER GETS A CHANCE TO PLAY.
TO SUMMARISE THE WHOLE CONTENTION, THE SCHOOLS INFRASTRUCTURE IS TOTALLY INADEQUATE, ALL THESE FACILITIES ARE JUST TO SHOW ON THE BOOKS, THE AVAILABLE INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT EVEN 50% OF THE STUDENT STRENGTH.
A MINIMUM COMMON CODE FOR ALL SCHOOLS CLAIMING TO PROVIDE THESE FACILITIES SHOULD BE DRAWN AS PER THE STUDENT STRENGTH OF THE SCHOOL.
IF THE FACILITIES ARE INADEQUATE THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO CHARGE FOR ADDITION FACILITIES.
IF THE SCHOOLS CLAIM TO PROVIDE THEM THEN THEY MUST PROVIDE ADEQUATE AND SUFFICIENT FACILITIES TO GET THE FEES FOR THE FACILITIES.
Yes. It is certainley a crutial point and a major one too. It has been incorporated in our memorandum. Thanks for the support.
ReplyDeleteGen Sect. IPWA
All parents should join IPWA in a larger interest to provide best education, at areasonable cost and with all the essential facilities so that the children may be brought up in a resourcefull manner.
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