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A Delhi high court-appointed committee has indicted 58 more private schools for unjustifiably hiking tuition fees by up to 25% in 2009. After verifying the accounts of 147 schools, the committee in its second report urged the court to direct the managements to refund the increased amount to the parents along with an interest of 9%.


Prominent among the 58 schools asked to refund fees include Delhi Public School, RK Puram. Loreto Convent School, Delhi Cantt and Summer Fields School, Kailash Colony


With the new list, the number of private schools indicted for unjustifiably hiking fees has gone up to 122.



The panel headed by former Rajasthan high court Chief Justice Anil Dev Singh had in its first report submitted in September 2012 hauled up 64 schools for illegally hiking fees after inspecting records of 200 schools and ordered a similar refund.



Apart from the 122 schools indicted for illegal fee hike so far, the panel also found that at least 77 other schools fudged account statements and concealed receipt books making it difficult to ascertain the extent it hiked the fee. Fee hike timeline * A PIL challenged 25% fee hike by schools in 2009

*Govt allowed it to help schools to implement 6th pay commission recommendation

*HC said such blanket permission cannot be allowed and it has to be based on financial health of each school

*HC orders inspection of accounts of all 1,800 private schools

*After first round of inspection an HC panel finds 64 out of 200 schools illegally hiked fees

*After the second round of inspection, the panel found 58 out of 147 schools illegally hiked fees

*Schools asked to refund increased fee to parents with 9% interest



“The greed of substantial number of schools has been uncovered. They capitalized on the government order for unjust enrichment causing great prejudice to students and their parents”, the panel said. The government had allowed the schools to hike the fees to enable them to implement the sixth pay commission report which recommended upward revision of salary of its staff.



The court ordered the inspection of account of all 1,800 private schools in the capital acting on a PIL filed by a parents’ body Delhi Abhibhavak Maha Sangh. Court made it clear that government cannot issue a blanket notification permitting all private schools to hike tuition fees by a certain percentage and it should be based on financial health of each school.



“Panel found 122 schools out of 348 inspected, that is 50% of them, illegally hiked fees. It vindicates our stand that the fee hike was illegal and schools were indulging in commercial exploitation”, said Sangh’s lawyer Ashok Agarwal.



Slamming the government for not having any control over the functioning of the schools, the panel said “regulatory mechanism has been thrown to the winds by Directorate of Education. Schools are behaving in the manner they like. Right from the stage of granting recognition, the lack of supervisory control of the government’s education department is writ large.”



58 schools indicted in second report submitted by the panel to the Delhi high court on March 15, 2013



Delhi Public School, RK Puram

Loreto Convent School, Delhi Cantt

Mount St Mary’s School, Delhi Cantt

Summer Fields School, Kailash Colony

Lovely Buds Public School, Johripur

Diamond Public School, Yamuna Vihar

Sun Smile Public School, Aman Vihar

Vijay Bharati Public School, Badarpur

Glory Public School, Sarita Vihar

Nav Jeevan Adarsh Public School, Brij Puri

BAV Public School, Ghonda

RM Convent School, Palam

Prakash Model School, Mahavir Enclave

Dayanand Model Secondary School, Vivek Vihar

Goodley Public School, Shalimar Bagh

MN Convent Secondary School, Saroop Nagar

Jai Mann Public School, Khera Khurd

Jain Bharti Vidyalaya, GT Karnal Road

Modern Era Convent, Janak Puri

Red Roses Public School, Saket

Bhai Joga Singh Public School, Karol Bagh

Maharaja Agrasen Model School, Pitam Pura

Tagore Modern Public School, Motia Khan

Tagore Modern Public School, Shalimar Bagh

Gyandeep Vidya Bhawan Sr secondary school, Yamuna Vihar

Holy Heart Public School, Mahavir Enclave

Swati Modern Public Seconday School, Mundka

Kamal Convent Public School, Vikas Puri

Shiv Memorial Public School, East Gokalpur

Mahavira International School, Tri Nagar

St.James School, Yamuna Vihar

Vivekanand Convent School, Shahdara

Nalanda Public School, Shahdara

RN Public School, Rani Bagh

Career Public School, Jheel Khuranja

Tagore Public School, Jheel Khuranja

Luxmi Modern Public School, Karawal Nagar

Goodwill Public school, Najafgarh

Raghunath Bal Mandir School, Najafgarh

Holy Child model school, Najafgarh

Sandhya Public School, Chauhan Bangar

St.Marks Sr.Secondary school, Harsh Vihar

Aravali Public School, Naraina

Purnima Public School, Sagarpur

BS Public School, Nangloi

Doon Public School, Janakpuri

National Public School, Jhilmil Colony

BM Bharti Model School, Majri

New Nalanda Public School, Badarpur

Naveen Dabar Secondary Public School, Daulatpur

Sri Guru Harkishan Model School, Tagore Garden

UD Public School Shivaji Park, Shahdara

SM Public School, East Krishna Nagar

Kennedy Public School, Raj Nagar, Palam

Bholi Ram Public School, Najafgarh





64 schools indicted in the first report submitted on September 1, 2012

Guru Harkishan Public Schools (GHPS for short)

GHPS, Hargovind Enclave

GHPS, Purana Qila Road

GHPS, Shahdara

GHPS, Punjabi Bagh

GHPS, Hardhian Singh Road, Karol Bagh

GHPS, Hemkunt Colony

GHPS, Tilak Nagar

GHPS, Hari Nagar

GHPS, Vasant Vihar

GHPS, Nanak Piao

GHPS, Fateh Nagar

GHPS, Vishnu Garden

Karandeep Public School, Bharthal

Maharishi Dayanand Public School, New Moti Nagar

Bhageerathi Bal Shiksha Sadan, Kartar Nagar

Holy Home Public School, Ghonda

Bright Star Public School, Mauj Pur

Universal Public School

Pt.Yaad Ram Secondary Public School, Bhajanpura

New Era Convent School, Sonia Vihar

Dhruv Deep Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Shiv Vihar

Neel Giri Public School, Rama Garden, Karawal Nagar

Abhinav Bharti Bhawan School

Shivalik Public School, Yamuna Vihar

St.Parmanand Public School, Majlis Park

Panacea National Public School, Libas Pur

Nav Jeevan Adarsh Public Sr.Sec school, Gautam Puri

Konark Public School, North Chhajjupur, Shahdra

KLV Convent School, Nehru Vihar

Guru Nanak Public School, Punjabi Bagh

Shiv Mandir Saraswati Bal Vidyalaya, Jai Dev Park

Cosmos Public School, Vasundhara Enclave

Gyandeep Public School, Shivpuri

Amar Jeewan Public School, New Govind Pura

Motherhood Public School, New Usmanpur

Guru Teg Bahadur Public School, Model Town

Chaudhury Chotu Ram Memorial school, Bhagat Singh Park

Guru Amar Daas Public School, Tilak Nagar

Sunhill Public School, Ranjit Nagar

J R Public School, West Sagarpur

JBM Public School, Nasirpur

Paramount International School, Dwarka

Cosmos Sec.School, Badarpur

Vidya Vihar Vidyalaya, Naveen Shahdra

Sevti Devi Memorial V idya Mandir, Mahavir Enclave

Inder Public School, Mandawali

Aster Public School, Mayur Vihar

Veer Public School, Kapashera

Arun Modern Public school, Brijpuri

Rama Public School, Najafgarh

Jesus and Mary Public School, Dwarka Palam Road

Happy Child Model School, Uttam Nagar

Puja Convent School, Uttam Nagar

West Point Model School, Uttam Nagar

G P Public school, Dilshad Colony

St.Krishna Bodh Public School, Main Mandoli Road

Arwachin Shiksha Sadan Public School, Shanti Nagar

Rose Garden Public School, West Ghonda

Adarsh Bharti Public School, Brijpuri

Shibbon Modern Public School, Vijay Colony

Nitya Nand Memorial Public School, Ghonda

Shiva Model Public School, Shahbad Daulatpur

Prakash Deep Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Panchal Vihar

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Schools can't make parents deposit fees in advance

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Quarterly Fee Illegal

DoE to ask schools to pay `10,000 as audit fee

The Directorate of Education (DoE) received the audit report of about 250 more schools on Friday. The report has been submitted by the Chartered Accountant firm hired by the Directorate to audit the accounts of all the private schools to decide upon the fee revision after the implementation of the sixth pay commission. The DoE is to submit the report to the Justice Anil Dev Committee on Monday. The DoE, that has recently made a payment of `49 lakh to the committee, is to write to all schools on Monday for payment of `10,000 against the payment made to the committee. Justice Anil Dev Committee was constituted by the Delhi High Court in 2011 to audit the accounts of all the public schools after the school decided to hike the tuition fee after the implementation of the sixth pay commission. The Committee so far has audited the accounts of about 200 schools and has submitted its report to the court. The DoE has instructed the firm to submit the same to the Committee on Monday. The committee is to submit the same to the court in the next hearing scheduled on September 28. Accounts of about 1,200 private schools of Delhi are to be audited, before the court gives its verdict on hiking the tuition fees in Delhi schools. Meanwhile, the DoE is to write to all the schools on Monday to make a payment of `10,000 each against the consultancy charges to be paid to the court committee. “Our office has made the payment to the committee. The court has asked the schools to bear this cost. The schools however cannot charge the same from the students,” said the senior official at the DoE. The parent body is hopeful that the court will soon give its verdict on the issue.

Delhi branded capital of fake biz schools. K R Mangalam is one of them

AICTE says city has highest number of illegal technical institutes

Delhi has become the capital of the fake management degree business.

The Capital has bagged the dubious distinction of playing host to the largest number of illegal educational institutes in the country.

According to data provided by the All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE), as many as 75 institutes in Delhi are enrolling students under technical programmes without its approval.

And more than half of them offer degree or diploma programmes in management studies.

Maharashtra, too, shares this dubious honour. Shockingly, both states together account for 45 per cent of all the total unapproved institutes in India.

But the Capital having the same number of illegal educational institutes as the third largest state in country is definitely a bigger reason for concern. Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal have the second and third highest number of unapproved institutions, respectively.

The AICTE is the only authority empowered to grant recognition to technical courses run by different universities and institutes in the country.

There are close to 3,500 management institutes alone approved by the AICTE, of which 3,000 offer MBA programmes and 500 offer diplomas.

According to the Council regulations, any academic programme related to the field of architecture and town planning, management studies, engineering and information technology, pharmacy, hotel management and catering require AICTE approval.

And in the absence of the Council’s nod, the ‘ degrees’ handed out by the defaulting institutes are not worth the paper they are printed on.

“ The degree or diploma awarded by such institutes does not hold any value in the job market, especially if the student wishes to seek employment in the government sector,” said M. K. Hada, head of the approval department of the Council.

The Council can do little other than give wide publicity to the fact that such institutes are not approved by it. It uploads the names of such institutes on its official website, and issues newspaper advertisements from time to time. The names of all the 348 unapproved institutes are available on www. aicte- india. org . Action against erring institutes has to be taken by the respective state administrations. In a reply to a Parliament question given by the ministry of human resource development in the Lok Sabha earlier this month, the state and UNION territory governments have been advised from time to time to issue necessary instructions to the district administration or police to take action against such institutes.

The last such communication was issued by the ministry on May 2 this year.

The ministry had also issued a public appeal to students, advising them to take necessary steps to ensure that their institutes are recognised under the law and offer courses of quality and repute.

Despite this, many of the illegal institutions continue to thrive and enroll students as a spot check by this paper revealed.

Prospective students are lured with glossy brochures that boast big corporations as recruiters.

Most operate from small campuses lodged in corner of a residential colony or a busy market. Questions on AICTE approval are dodged with the excuse that the institutes offer degrees through a tie- up with either state or central universities recognised by the University Grants Commission ( UGC).

“ We have noticed that it’s with such claims that these institutes manage to lure in students. But this is a lie. A UGC or AICTE approved university can only offer technical programmes for its own students and not extend this approval to other private institutes.

But we have noticed this is one of the popular methods used by small private institutes to enroll students and make them believe that their courses are legitimate,” S. S. Mantha, chairman, AICTE said.

The K. R. Mangalam Global Institute of Management in Greater Kailash, for instance, informed this reporter ( posing as an MBA aspirant) that their MBA degree did not require AICTE approval as it was offered by Mysore University, which is UGC recognised. Similarly, the FOSTIIMA Business School in South Extension, a five- year- old institute that boasts being set up by seven alumni of IIM Ahmedabad, also said its MBA degree was legal as it was offered through a tieup with Pondicherry University.

The gimmick obviously works.

The students at these institutes that MAIL TODAY interacted with had no idea whether the programmes they were enrolled in were approved by the AICTE or not.

But the Council pleads helplessness as far as youngsters falling into the trap of such institutes are concerned.

“ We do everything we can as far as giving publicity to the list of unapproved institutes is concerned.

Even if the institute does not give them information, students should visit our website as all the information is also uploaded there,” said a senior AICTE official, who did not wish to be identified.

Mantha, however, said that the Council is currently also trying to come up with alternative ways to counter this problem.

Q&A

Why is the AICTE approval important for an institute offering technical courses?

Approval by AICTE grants legitimacy to a technical course.

Without it, your diploma or degree will not hold any value in the job market.

Which technical programs are generally required to get the AICTE approval?

Academic programmes related to architecture and town planning, management studies, engineering and information technology, pharmacy, hotel management and catering require AICTE approval.

How can one find out if an institute is approved by AICTE?

Every year, the Council provides wide publicity to its list of unapproved institutes. This list is also available on their official website.

www. aicte- india. org

Does AICTE initiate any action against illegal institutes?

The AICTE also asks the state governments, from time to time, to take action against the erring institutes.

Reproduced From Mail Today. Copyright 2011. MTNPL. All rights reserved.

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Legal Notice to School on Feehike

Dear Parents;

We have sent a legal notice to the school on fee hike done in current academic year. Pls find the copy of legal notice attached and be together against the arbitrary and unjust feehike done by the school.

Regards
SFSPA