MUMBAI: After repeated complaints over the past one year about fee hikes, the state school education department has invited suggestions from parents and other stakeholders for amendments in the fee regulation act.
A long-standing grouse of parents is the Act favours school managements and they have little or no scope for redressal. A group of parents had recently met school education minister, Varsha Gaikwad, with similar complaints. In a GR issued on Tuesday, the department has called for suggestions in the Maharashtra Educational Institutions (Regulation of Fee) Act, 2011. The online portal https://www.research.net/r/feeregulation will accept suggestions for a month.
“Suggestions were sought from parents in 2017, but the then government made amendments which were anti-parents and pro-managements,” said Prasad Tulaskar, a parent.