4 schools booked for high admit form, entrance fees
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private schools in Kathmandu Valley have been found to be flouting the
provisions of the Private and Institutional Schools Operation Directives
(2013) and a Supreme Court order. Separate teams from the District
Education Offices of Kathmandu and Lalitpur, led by their respective
District Education Officers (DEO), had conducted surprise checks at the
schools. They found that the schools had charged entrance fees around
five times higher than the rate fixed in the directives and the SC
order. Paragon School and Pathshala Nepal from Kathmandu and Suvatara
School and Rato Bangla School from Lalitpur were monitored on Thursday.
According to Kathmandu DEO Baikuntha Aryal, Pathshala Nepal was found to
have charged Rs 500 for admission form and the entrance fee while
Paragon, which was imposing the same amount till Wednesday, had
decreased the fees to Rs 125 after getting a clue about the inspection.
“Both the schools were found to be flouting the legal provisions,” said
Aryal. “They have given written commitments not to repeat their acts.”
The schools have also agreed to return the overcharged sum to the
respective student. Similarly, Suvatara School was charging Rs 500 and
the DEO Lalitpur has sought a written clarification from the school a d m
i• i s t r a t i o nð “Documents from the Rato
Bangla School have been seized and further study is going on,” said
Suprabhat Bhandari, chairman of Nepal Guardians’ Association, who is a
member of a monitoring team. Following reports about the extortion, the
Department of Education had directed the respective DEOs for the
monitoring and to enforce the directives and the court order. A division
bench of Justices Tahir Ali Ansari and Baidya Nath Upadhaya on May 23
last year directed all the concerned bodies not to charge more than Rs
25 for admission form and Rs 100 for the entrance test fee. It also
directed the Prime Minister’s Office, the Council of Ministers and the
Ministry of Education to monitor the compliance of its order. Based on
the verdict, the Department of Education, with consent from the
organisations of private schools, had incorporated the provision in the
new directives issued on February 19. However, owing to a lack of
monitoring, most of the educational institutions are collecting hefty
sums from students. The DoE had also directed the DEOs to book the
offenders under the clause 17 (2) of Education Act.
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