June 18, 2013

Now, a cabinet sub-committee to regulate fees in private schools

HYDERABAD: The state cabinet on Monday decided to appoint a cabinet sub-committee to regulate tuition fee, term fee and other fees in private schools. In the backdrop of serious allegations that private schools are fleecing parents in the name of different categories of fee, the ministers requested chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy to rein in corporate schools. Agreeing to this, the chief minister directed that a cabinet sub-committee be constituted to examine the issue and submit recommendations to bring relief to parents.
Kiran Kumar Reddy also prevailed upon his cabinet colleagues to give their nod for his pet programme, Bangaru Thalli, a girl child protection initiative. The cabinet, which met here on Monday, approved the bill and decided to place the same before the Assembly on Tuesday.

Contentious issues like the beneficiary girl child should be born in government hospital and compulsory enrolment in government school till Class V have been dropped from the bill. Earlier, some ministers raised concern over these issues and pointed that these conditions would actually make the scheme unpopular.

Heeding to their advice, the CM agreed to drop the conditions to avail the scheme. On the advice of some ministers, it was decided to modify the bill so that the final benefits would be handed over to the girl only after she completes her graduation.

PCC president
Botsa Satyanarayana and Panchayat Raj minister K Jana Reddy earlier expressed their reservations on the special status given to Bangaru Thalli scheme. While Jana Reddy was conspicuous by his absence in the cabinet meeting, surprisingly, Botsa Satyanarayana did not raise any objection during the meeting.

The cabinet also cleared the proposal to reserve seats for backward classes in the panchayat elections on the basis of district population. Several ministers raised objections over conducting elections on the basis of statewide BC reservations. The chief minister then agreed to consider districtwise census to decide on the BC reservations for panchayat polls.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Now-a-cabinet-sub-committee-to-regulate-fees-in-private-schools/articleshow/20638844.cms

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