Parents unhappy with Noida allowing schools to raise fee by 7.88%

NEW DELHI: The Noida District Fee Regulation Committee has ordered private schools to not increase their fee by more than 7.88 percent in the upcoming academic year. This has displeased parents of children studying in Noida’s private schools.

The All Noida School Parents Association (ANSPA) has argued that the decision to allow a 7.88 percent hike is unjustified and that they will meet the district magistrate to discuss this on January 4.

The Noida DFRC has written to schools in Noida and Greater Noida, informing them about the cap on fee-hike. Through the same letter, it had also instructed schools to disclose their fee structure and upload the revised structure for 2020-21 on their websites and notice boards by January 30, 2020.

Yatendra Kasana, president of ANPSA, told Careers360: “The recent order is arbitrary and unjustified. They say that the fee hike has been decided based on consumer price index (CPI). Who calculated this CPI? Till last year, they use to increase it by 10 percent. So, will they refund the excess fee? There is a lack of clarity and we will raise the issue with the DM, when we meet him on January 4.”

The DFRC in its letter has said that it has arrived at the figure of 7.88 percent after taking into account the latest available yearly percentage in the CPI and adding it to five percent of the fee realised from each student.

To stop arbitrary fee-hike in private schools, the Uttar Pradesh Government enacted the Uttar Pradesh Self-Financed Independent Schools (Fees Regulation) Act. 2018.

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