Corpn school demanded money for books: Parents

Coimbatore: After several parents accused authorities of a corporation school of demanding money for books, education officials of the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation have promised an investigation.
Authorities of the Corporation Higher Secondary School at Udayampalayam, near Sowripalayam, asked them to pay Rs 550 for books, the parents said. “They said admission was free, but asked us to pay for the books. So, we came back. We have to go back to get the books,” said a parent from Udayampalayam.
The corporation will ask the school authorities to submit explanation, corporation educational officer A Valliammal said. “If they have collected money from parents, we would ask them to return it. No corporation school should collect money from parents for any purpose,” she said.
Meanwhile, members of the Students Federation of India (SFI) submitted a petition to corporation officials, requesting to set up a monitoring committee to prevent malpractices. “The civic body should ensure that textbooks and other benefits given by the government to corporation school students reach them,” said SFI district secretary M Dhinesh Raja.