The Kathmandu District Education Office has already asked two schools to furnish justification for hiking the admission fees despite the instruction of the Fee Fixation and Monitoring Committee to not increase fees this session, said the Kathmandu District Education Oficer Baikuntha Aryal. [break]
A school monitoring team led by Kathmandu´s District Education Officer on Tuesday had found that Daffodil School, Kapan and Meridian International School, Baluwatar were charging admission fees twice as much as they did the previous year.
Daffodil School, which charged Rs 16,140 admission fee last year, was found taking up to Rs 31,260 this academic session.
Similarly, the Meridian International School was found taking Rs 22,150 admission fee in the new session. The school administration has concealed last years´ fees chart, according to the inspection team members.
Chairman of the Guardian Association of Nepal (GAoN) Suprabhat Bhandari said that the organization would continuously pressurize both the government and schools to implement Private and Boarding School Directive endorsed in February.
The GAoN has been staging phase wise protest for the last month against the PABSON after it announced to defy the regulation that has been introduced by the Ministry of Education.
Chairman of the Kathmandu Chapter of the GAoN Bechan Kapad said that the schools did not provide a break up of the total fee under separate headings but gave the bill mentioning the total admission cost.
He also urged all the guardians to ask for a bill with the costs under precise topics.
The PABSON and N-PABSON had to step back from their decision to hike 10 percent fee this year after the guardians´ representative in the fee fixation committee protested the move.
“Defying the government directives, the private schools have been cheating students and guardians under various titles in the name of extra-curricular activities,” Kapad added.
The Supreme Court March last year had issued an order to the government to regulate private and boarding schools. The MoE decided to draft the directive after the SC verdict.
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