The Rajasthan education department has also allowed parents to buy uniforms and books from the market apart from the school.
Jaipur: Private schools in Rajasthan can’t increase fee for three academic years, say new guidelines issued by the state’s education department. The Rajasthan Education Department has issued new guidelines including strict enforcement against charging fees exceeding the prescribed amount, ensuring full compliance with regulations regarding the sale of study materials and uniforms, and mandating the organization of parent-teacher meetings.
Furthermore, the Rajasthan education department has also allowed parents to buy uniforms and books from the market apart from the school. “A committee of parents-teachers should be formed to finalise fee structure in private schools. This committee will fix the fee amount. The name, address, mobile number of all the members of this fee committee will have to be updated on the private school’s portal,” say the guidelines, news agency IANS reported.
Rajasthan Education Dept Issues 10 New Guidelines
- As per the news agency IANS report, the 10-point guidelines further say that it “would be illegal to charge more than the fee approved by the committee. Action may be taken against such schools under the Fees Act and the extra fees collected from parents may have to be returned.”
- Furthermore, the education department has stressed that there should be 100 per cent compliance with its norms for the sale of study materials and uniforms and also with the rules made for specially-abled and female students.
- Private schools affiliated with the Board of Secondary Education Rajasthan, CBSE, CISCE, CAIE, etc should select books for the academic session by following the norms.
- The education department has also asked private schools to organise parent-teacher meetings where student and school management-related problems should be discussed.
- It will be mandatory to provide this information to the District Education Officer and paste the guidelines on school notice boards and upload them on their websites.
- Along with prompt hearing of complaints of mental and physical harassment of students, action should be taken against the culprits as soon as possible, IANS reported.
- It is mandatory to upload information i.e., the name of the author, the price of the book, etc on the notice boards and websites of schools a month before the start of the academic session, so that parents can buy them from the market also, the education department said.
(With Inputs From IANS)