AP plans to adopt TN model to fix fee

The state government is all set to constitute “Private Schools Fee Determination Committee” headed by a retired High Court judge to fix fees for private schools in the state offering state syllabus, CBSE, ICSE, or any other board syllabus. The committee will be on the lines of the Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee that decides the fees for professional courses in the state.

Tamil Nadu government is successfully implementing this model for the last two years.

“The government has been consistently receiving complaints against private schools for charging huge fees and resorting to unreasonable fee hikes every year,” said the minister of secondary

A team will soon visit TN to study the modalities to fix fees for private schools. AP will come up with an action plan based on this

education, Parthasarathi. “The MLCS and MLAS have also voiced their protest on this. They are asking why the government cannot regulate fees in private schools when Tamil Nadu has been doing it effectively for the past two years,” the minister said.

“A team of officials will soon visit Tamil Nadu to

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K. learn the modalities being followed there to fix fees for private schools. The government will come out with an action plan on constituting the fee fixation committee based on the report to be submitted by the officials. The government is also willing to legislate on the issue, if required,” he said.

Earlier attempts of the state government to regulate fees in private schools since 2009 had proved futile, with the school managements obtaining stay orders from courts.

In Tamil Nadu, the committee has been deciding the fee structure schoolwise and district-wise every year after inviting fee proposals with the managements. The managements submit audited financial statements on income and expenditure to enable the committee to fix the fees.