After the schools are opened and the management of the private schools resumed the much-lingered extraction of the fee and other charges from the students, defies all justifications. The long-drawn controversy has given a halt by the Committee for Fixation of Fee of Private Schools (FFRC) that has directed the private schools-management to submit all supportive documents on the matter. This would put an end to the over-stretched transportation issue between the government, parents and private schools.
The FFRC says that in order to ascertain the genuineness of the information submitted by private schools and to enable the committee to take a final decision, the private school management shall furnish the supportive documents before the committee.
Many stakeholders like parents and social bodies have submitted various representations regarding charging of transport fee during the period of lockdown. On this, the FFRC issued a notice to all private schools of UT of Jammu and Kashmir with the direction to submit information of various documents of transportation to justify their act of demanding the transport charges for the lock-down period from the students.
FFRC says that in absence of proof and evidence in support of the data submitted by the private schools, the committee may not be in a position to decide the matter in a just and proper manner.
Therefore, all private schools of UT of Jammu and Kashmir should submit supportive documents including receipts in case of insurance, taxes, bank interest and fee received to FFRC enabling to come to some rational conclusions.
The FFRC has also asked the management to submit the payroll of drivers and conductors who were on rolls during a lockdown period along with their contact details, copies of RC’s of vehicles owned, number of students availing bus facility and the bank statement wherever applicable.
It is time to settle such issues amicably by the Private Schools Managements with the FFRC as parents who are always at the receiving end as a whole is not an organised group.
