Lok Sabha Question No. 3104 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-06
Subject: Hike in School Fee
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: C. MAHENDRAN, MEENAKASHI LEKHI, ASHWINI KUMAR, BALKA SUMAN, NAGARAJAN P., KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3104 TO BE ANSWERED ON 6 th  August, 2018

## Hike in School Fee

3104. SHRI C.MAHENDRAN:

SHRIMATI MEENAKASHI LEKHI:

SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR:

SHRI SUMAN BALKA:

SHRI P. NAGARAJAN:

SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  form  uniform  fee  framework  to  check frequent  and  arbitrary  increase  in  school  fees  by  unaided  and  private  schools and  if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  number  of  private  management schools, State/UT-wise;
- (b) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  put  a  ceiling  on  maximum  fee  to  be charged from the students keeping in view the payment capacity of common man and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has also received suggestions from National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)  to the effect that Centre  may  consider  to  cap  school  fee  hikes  at  10%  per  annum  covering  all private and unaided schools and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the  time  by  which  the  said  recommendations/suggestions  are  likely  to  be implemented by the Government; and
- (e) whether the Government has also issued guidelines on regulating fee in private schools that prescribe penal provision for those institutions that violate the   norms due  to  number  of  complaints  pouring  in  from  aggrieved  parents  across  the country and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

- (a): There is no such proposal under the consideration of the Government at present.

(b): Education being a subject in the Concurrent List of the Constitution and majority of schools being under the jurisdiction of theState/Union Territory Governments, it is for the  respective  State/Union  Territory  Government  to  take  a  decision  in  the  matter  for their schools.

(c): The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has developed a  'Model  Fee  Regulatory  Framework  for  Unaided  Private  Schools',  which, inter-alia , envisages that the school shall apply for fee determination every three years from the year of last fee determination and that the increase in fee within the levels shall not be more  than  10  percent  of  the  preceding  level.    The  NCPCR  has  recently  shared  the Model  Fee  Regulatory  Framework  for  Unaided  Private  Schools  with  the  Ministry  of Human Resource Development.

(d): As  stated  in  reply  to  part  (b)  above,  the  majority  of  schools  are  under  the jurisdiction  of  the  State  Government,  it  is  for  the  respective  State/Union  Territory Government  to  take  a  decision  on  the  implementation  of  the  Model  Fee  Regulatory Framework for  Unaided  Private  Schools  in  respect  of  the  private  schools  functioning from their territory.  Hence, no fixed time frame for its implementation can be indicated.

(e): No, Madam.

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