Chandigarh: Charge only tuition fee monthly, schools told

CHANDIGARH: The education department of the UT administration has permitted private schools to charge only tuition fee on monthly basis from parents during the lockdown.
The order directed schools to ensure timely and complete payment to teaching and non-teaching staff, take sympathetic view if any parent is unable to pay fee and do not strike out name of any child for nonpayment of fee.

“Private unaided schools are permitted to collect only tuition fee on monthly basis from students till further orders. The last date to deposit tuition fee shall be the 15th day of the every month from June. However, fee for April and May is to be collected by May 31. No late fee is to be charged up to May 31,” the order said.
The schools were directed to provide access to online education/material/classes to all students without any discrimination during the lockdown. “In case, any parent is not in a position to deposit the fee on time due to adverse financial circumstances, such request will be considered sympathetically on a case-to-case basis. However, neither name of any student is to be struck off nor he/she is to be deprived of online teaching,” said the order that comes after Independent Schools Association and seven other petitioners approached the Punjab and Haryana high court challenging UT education department fee order of March 30 in which schools were directed to reschedule the last date for depositing fee.