HSPA boycotts committee; pens open letter to KCR

HYDERABAD: Highlighting the indifferent attitude of the government, Hyderabad Schools Parents Association (HSPA) has released a ‘letter of protest’ against government’s failure to stop school fee loot, on Friday. Addressed to the chief minister the open letter demands the immediate fulfilment of the promise to regulate school fees.

A day after the committee headed by Prof Tirupati Rao failed to submit its report for the second time this month, HSPA has decided to pull itself out of the committee. “Registering our strong protest against this delay in submission/acceptance of the report and the continuous betrayal of the parents by the government; we, the parent representatives in the committee, tender our resignation, with immediate effect, from the committee vide this open letter to you,” the letter reads. 

The Prof Tirupati Rao Committee, formulated on 21 March 2017, was supposed to submit its report in a month. Two hundred and fifty days and more than six extensions later, the report is yet to be submitted. Deputy chief minister and education minister Kadiyam Srihari had also assured on the floor of the house in the recently-concluded Assembly session that the Committee would be submitted the report by November 30.

“We know for a fact that there is nothing pending for discussion. We fail to understand your reluctance in fulfilling the promise of School Fee Regulation which your party had included in its GHMC manifesto and the fulfilment of which hardly requires any budgetary allocation,” said Ashish Naredi.

The parents association also flayed the government for making false promises, and a constituting a sham of a Committee to look into setting up of free regulatory committees. They have reminded the chief minister that “future of 34 lakh students (and their parents) studying in the private schools of Telangana as of today is in your hands...tied to their future is the future of the state of Telangana.” Their Missed Call Campaign against #SchoolFeeHike got 2 lakh missed calls. They held a ‘visarjan’ of Government Orders not implemented. Their parody on the issue has generated more than 7 lakh views on the social media.