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IIT - JEE - PETITION FILED IN BOMBAY HIGH COURT - NEXT DATE OF HEARING - 27/11/2012
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IIT - JEE MATTER - Petition No. WP/7737/2012 Bombay High Court
LATEST UPDATE - NEXT DATE OF HEARING - 27/11/2012 -
It is most unfortunate that due to various reasons our Petition is being delayed for hearing. The next date of hearing as mentioned on Bombay High Court Website is 27th November, 2012. If the Judiciary can't understand the urgency of the matter, what can we do? IT'S INDIAN JUDICIARY - MERA BHARAT MAHAAN
(Those who wish to file PIL in other States are requested to contact us immediately)
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Parents approach HC, seek stay on new percentile plan
Hindustan Times: From page 01 NEW DELHI: Even as the controversy surrounding the 2013 IIT admissions appeared to be settling down, Monday brought about a new twist in the tale. Nearly a dozen parents, in collaboration with an NGO, filed a petition in the Bombay high court — demanding a stay on the new pattern for 2013.The NGO, Forum for Fairness in Education, and eleven parents of 12th standard students submitted a petition in court, challenging the new IIT pattern on several grounds.
“We were hopeful the government would consider students who had been preparing for the IIT entrance for the last two years. The child should be given ample time to mentally prepare himself. When we saw that the government was adamant on bringing about the change from 2013, we had no option but to opt for the legal course,” says Jayant Jain, president of the NGO.
Describing the decision to make only 20 percentile from each board eligible for the entrance test as “arbitrary, discriminative and unreasonable”, the petitioners said marks across different boards cannot be equated. “This is clearly discriminative against small-sized boards. This proposal militates against them because there is no comparability between small and large,” they pleaded.
“The respondents must ensure that students appearing for the exams up to 2015 are provided with the same pattern, failing which they would suffer irreparable harm and prejudice,” the petitioners observed.
New format of exam to join IITs challenged in HC
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Mumbai: The Forum for Fairness in Education, along with nine parents, has challenged in Bombay high court the new format of the competitive entrance exam to join engineering colleges, including the Indian Institutes of Technology. The new format, proposed by the HRD ministry, comprises one national competitive exam that is made of the JEE-main, followed by a JEE-advanced exam.
Terming the new process of selecting candidates “unfair”, the petition stated that every student must be allowed to sit for both exams and the new format of the exam must not be implemented in 2013. In the new format, every student has to take the JEE-main exam and the advanced exam, to join the IITs can be taken only by the top 20% candidates.
Stating that the decision to make only 20 percentile from each board eligible for the entrance test as “arbitrary, discriminative and unreasonable”, the petitioners said marks and competitiveness across boards cannot be equated.
The petitioners stated that the process must be set aside and the upcoming exam in 2013 must follow the same pattern as the Joint Entrance Exam 2012. The petition states that denying a student the right to appear for the JEE Advanced exam would not constitute a fair and transparent common admission process. The petitioners said most students start preparing for competitive exams after class X and 2013 would be too early for students to adapt to the new format of the exam.
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Dear Parents / Students,
The MHRD proposed a CET for admission to all engineering colleges across the country. The proposal was to merge the IIT-Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE) and All Indian Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) (conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education) and also to take into account the performance of the aspirants during board exams at school level for admission to the various engineering courses. The move was opposed by various senates of the IITs and the alumni associations. In fact, IIT Kanpur decided to conduct its own entrance exam, while majority of the states too were not keen on joining the CET.
This will replace the current system of a joint entrance examination (JEE) for IITs and separate tests for state engineering colleges. This implies one Common Entrance Test for AIEEE, IIT's, NIT’s & other engineering colleges from 2013. (One -Nation One - Test)
This change is totally arbitrary, the original proposal by the HRD was different from the last announced one, and the changes sought by the IIT were also different. After all the skirmishes between the HRD and the Senates the emerging solution is a confused pattern which is not in the interest of the students at all but is done only to satisfy the two parties and arrive at a hasty compromise.
There has been no satisfactory reason given for the haste of meeting the 2013 deadline. We do not understand why the changes cannot wait until a proper system is formulated.
We are apprehensive about the absence of clarity on how the procedural issues will be tackled, 2013 is too early. Till date all the senates have not agreed to the proposed changes. The Bombay senate is yet to even hold a meeting on the last proposed change. Until now the Kanpur IIT is still planning to conduct its own exam.
Without proper trials and a dry run it will definitely be a chaos. It is no use in us objecting after it has happened. The IITs are institutes of National importance and is run on the tax payer’s money; as such we have a legitimate reason to insist on some reasons/explanation for the changes. Especially as we are alarmed and can see from the press releases that the Council and the Senates do not see eye to eye.
The proposal to consider only the top 20 percentile of class XII is not only extremely unfair but also impossible to implement unless all school boards cooperate and publish their results before June. There has been no dry run conducted. This year the HSC results did not come out by June, we cannot be sure they will next year. Not a single year has the results from all boards come out by June. There has to be a dry run of this, to check if it is possible at all for boards to give the results as well as the revaluations rechecking etc by June. Also no forethought or contingency made for, if there is paper leak and re-exam conducted in any one or more of all these many boards. Even this year Karnataka 12th board paper leaked and re-exam conducted and results delayed.
School boards also have to prepare their percentile list on quota lines, they have been told to prepare the percentile by categories such as general, backward classes, scheduled castes and tribes etc a time-consuming affair. They need to conduct a dry run of this too.
Also no clarity till date on the subjects that will be considered for board percentiles, all the subjects or only PCM. If only PCM is taken then it makes very little sense as anyway (the Mains and) Advanced will check the students in depth knowledge of PCM. If all subjects then some boards have five and some six. Also in ISC board taking only four subjects is an option. Till date the students do not know what to concentrate on. Till date no decision on if the advanced will be subjective or not, if it is advanced then students need time to prepare.
If it is not advanced then for what reason are they short listing?
Also those students who want to take JEE only are forced to sit for the mains, which is the AIEEE. This is totally unfair to tie up the two exams together. If a student is, by chance, unwell for the mains he cannot take the advanced.
In fact it is totally ridicules to expect a student to top three exams for one seat. This does not happen anywhere in the world and the stress is unimaginable. To have to come within top 20 percentile which means a student will have to worry about others doing better than him rather than his own marks which is an unhealthy competition. Also to have to top the mains to get into the 1,50,000 short list and then have to top the Advanced also will create a pressure situation that will rob the student of normal school life and will keep him/her tied up to books throughout the day.
"everyone in the country is well aware that our IITs and IIMs are the country's brand educational institutions recognized the world over. They have taken more than five decades to become what they are today. It is well recognized that complete academic autonomy enjoyed by these institutions played an overwhelming important role in influencing their performance."
“IITs are the jewels of the country. IIT as an internationally acclaimed brand name needs to be preserved and supported,” “…such an important academic decision should not have been taken in haste.” ----------The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on 16 June 2012
We present some facts as below
1. Total number of children appearing for these exams-Approx.479651
2. No.Seats in IIT- 9647
3. The entrance exam consists of languages also.
4. Top 40000 students based on class XII result will be eligible to appear in the aptitude test.
5. Normalization (20% percentile) of 12th Board/s is impossible because of presence of many boards in India.
Therefore, we along with few parents have decided to file a PIL / Petition in the Bombay High Court, shortly against the proposed pattern for IIT JEE as announced by the MHRD. We would certainly, pray the Hon. High Court to maintain the status quo and postpone the implementation of proposed pattern for at least two years / till the MHRD and IIT Council arrive at a student friendly pattern.
Although, Forum was pursuing this matter since last 3 weeks and has collected all relevant technical data from various sources, we could not file a petition due to delay on the part of the Advocate. However, after due thought we have decided to appoint one of the Best Councils to argue the matter on our behalf. We would also like to bring to your notice that the same advocate had argued similar matter during last year, concerning NEET for Medical students and got the judgment in students favor.
Since this matter is of utmost importance to all of us, we might have to approach Hon. Supreme Court, if required.
In order to get admission into IIT (post JEE_Advance), a student in W. Bengal Board would be home with just 58% in XII Board, while Tamilnadu Board student would need 78%.
Our contention is that while the Boards may be the same, their capability-wise but the surrounding circumstances are never the same (e.g. number of students appearing, majority students being bright or otherwise, etc.). Which is why their results can not be comparable on this basis for further actions -- as it has been explicitly brought out by Indian Statistical Institute's report.
For example, a student of the West Bengal Class XII board will need just 58% to be eligible to take the IIT-Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) next year while an aspirant from the Tamil Nadu board will have to score nearly 78% to make the cut off.
Preliminary data of seven boards across the country shows that the percentage required to be in the top 20 percentile — (its a necessary condition to be eligible for IIT-JEE next year (2013)— will vary for different boards),
The new pattern for IIT will have two exams— Mains and Advanced.
The final rank will depend on the performance in the advanced exam, provided a student is in the top 20 percentile of his or her board.
As per the earlier pattern, the eligibility criterion for IITs was that a student should score a minimum of 60%.
The new pattern will change it completely.
So, if a student wants to make it to the top 20 percentile bracket this year (2013), he / she will have to score 77.8% in the CBSE board, 78.1% in the Tamil Nadu board, 73.4% in Maharashtra SSC board, 67.5% in Karnataka, 65% in Uttar Pradesh, 64% in Madhya Pradesh and just 58% in the West Bengal board exam. These figures would apply only for general category students. For students seeking to take the test under various quotas, it would be less.
There is every possibility that the ICSE, CBSE, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu boards are most likely to be in the highest percentage bracket. Boards such as those of West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar will be at the lower end.
Please find below a concrete example that vividly brings out the acute unfairness, injustice and discrimination inflicted upon meritorious students -- just because they are in the company of meritorious students!
In order to get admission into IIT (post JEE_Advance), a student in W. Bengal Board would be home with just 58% in XII Board, while Tamilnadu Board student would need 78%.
Our contention is that while the Boards may be the same, their capability-wise but the surrounding circumstances are never the same (e.g. number of students appearing, majority students being bright or otherwise, etc.). Which is why their results can not be comparable on this basis for further actions -- as it has been explicitly brought out by Indian Statistical Institute's report.
For example, a student of the West Bengal Class XII board will need just 58% to be eligible to take the IIT-Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) next year while an aspirant from the Tamil Nadu board will have to score nearly 78% to make the cut off.
Preliminary data of seven boards across the country shows that the percentage required to be in the top 20 percentile — (its a necessary condition to be eligible for IIT-JEE next year (2013)— will vary for different boards),
The new pattern for IIT will have two exams— Mains and Advanced.
The final rank will depend on the performance in the advanced exam, provided a student is in the top 20 percentile of his or her board.
As per the earlier pattern, the eligibility criterion for IITs was that a student should score a minimum of 60%.
The new pattern will change it completely.
So, if a student wants to make it to the top 20 percentile bracket this year (2013), he / she will have to score 77.8% in the CBSE board, 78.1% in the Tamil Nadu board, 73.4% in Maharashtra SSC board, 67.5% in Karnataka, 65% in Uttar Pradesh, 64% in Madhya Pradesh and just 58% in the West Bengal board exam. These figures would apply only for general category students. For students seeking to take the test under various quotas, it would be less.
There is every possibility that the ICSE, CBSE, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu boards are most likely to be in the highest percentage bracket. Boards such as those of West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar will be at the lower end.
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Therefore, we request all concerned parents/students that your contribution in terms of Forum Membership / Voluntary Donation will be highly appreciated.
We look forward to your support, co-operation & contribution to favorably resolve this burning issue...
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INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE (Withdrawn on 18th April, 2011)
By Parents and Teachers
Against Corruption and Exploitation in Education
From 13 April, 11.00 am onwards, at Azaad Maidan, Mumbai has been withdrawn after positive response and introduction of Fee Regulation Bill in the Assembly Session by the Minister for School Education.
Hunger Strike Pamphlet1(Marathi)
Hunger Strike Pamphlet2(English)
Inspite of laws, court orders, using false assurances, the Govt. has colluded with the unaided schools lobby and allowed unscrupulous exploitation of parents & teachers. While fees are hiked in the name of teachers salaries, whereas they are not being paid their legitimate dues. Hence, we the parents and teachers have come together to expose and resist the exploitation.
Parents have been continuously complaining, including through Forum for Fairness in Education, over the last decade and have sought and often got support of the judiciary. Yet the private unaided school management lobby, which manages the Govt. (e. g. the appointment of Kumud Bansal as Chairperson of the Committee) has thrown out of the window the law of land, namely Prohibition of Capitation Fee Act-1987 and also all other related Acts, Rules including Secondary School Code.
Over the last three years, like several other scams, the shamelessness has spiked to unbearable levels. The Govt. has kept appearances by issuing GRs only to be rightly thrown away by Courts as, they have no legislative backing. It is obvious from the behaviour of the Govt. that school managements have hiked fees more than 150% in the last three years. The justifications for the increase in tuition fees have been to pay salaries & arrears as per the VI Pay Commission to teachers. But most of the teachers have not been paid the salaries as per the norms, inspite of up to 150% increase in the school fees, which should much more than cover the salaries. Therefore, we demand:
1. Limit (ceiling) on fee hike and permit fee hike only once in 3 years.
2. Refund of fees, if there is any element of profiteering.
3. Enforce Prohibition of Capitation Fee Act-1987, with well defined legitimate fees. covering VI Pay salaries.
4. Review Fee structure from 2008 onwards, of all private schools charging more than Rs. 6000/- per year and refund of all capitation fees collected till date.
5. Immediate implementation of VI Pay Commission & arrears with transparent pay-fixation.
6. Protect teachers against victimization, harassment, hire & fire policy as, teachers respectability is the key to students’ character building.
7. Transparency in Service condition including issuing of copy of the service book and monthly detailed salary to the teachers. Payment of PF and Gratuity as per the Govt. norms.
8. Penalize extortions, in the name of admission fee (up to 2 lakhs), Security Deposit (up to 2.5 lakhs), Imprest Money (up to 1 lakh), Activity fee (up to 30000 per activity). School Essentials (up to Rs. 50000), Building Fund (up to Rs. 50000), Admission Forms (up to Rs. 8000) etc. Also Stop compulsory purchase of uniforms, books, stationery, school essentials, and worksheets leading to exploitation.
9. Enforce truly democratically elected PTA representatives in place of sham PTAs and to maintain transparency in the functioning of PTA.
10. Stop interviews for Pre-Primary or Primary admissions, as per RTE Act. Also enforce RTE Act, including 25% reservation for the weaker & disadvantaged group of children.
11. Cover unaided schools under RTI and enforce web-publishing of accounts and facilities including affiliation details of all private schools.
12. Collection of all fees should be in the name of school only and official receipt/s must be issued for all payments.
THE CRUSADE AGAINST CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION
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THE ACT
REGULATION OF COLLECTION OF FEE ACT (Government of Maharashtra)
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OUR SUGGESTIONS / COMMENTS / OBJECTIONS ON THE REGULATION OF COLLECTION ACT - 2011.
We request the people of Maharashtra to send their Suggestions / objections / comments on the above Act. This is our last chance to do so. For your convineience, we have drafted suggestions / comments and objection. We request you to kindly download it, make necessary modifications by adding or deleting(if necessary), fill up required field such as date, your name, address, signatures etc. and send it to the office of your nearest Deputy Director (change address, if necessary). PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION IS 04th March, 2011.
Please Click the link below to view DRAFT OF OUR SUGGESTIONS(In English)
Click the link below for MARATHI Version of Draft Letter
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[RTE] RIGHT TO EDUCATION: Not even a single parent is aware of the fact that his/her child has the right to free education in PRE-PRIMARY Section in UNAIDED - PRIVATE School/s. As per Section 12 sub-section 1(c) of RTE all private schools should have reserved / admitted 25% of the strength of that class (Nursery / Play Group), for children of weaker section and disadvantaged group in the neighborhood school/s, without charging any fee. Even the Government failed to publish this provision of the Act. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the press / media to make parents / public aware of laws of the land. Alas! even media is neglecting poor people. We can only feel sorry for poor. LEGAL NOTICE TO SCRAP/CANCEL ALL PRE-PRIMARY ADMISSIONS IN PRIVATE UN-AIDED SCHOOLS As per the provisions of The Right to Free & Compulsory Education Act-2009 every school whether unaided or aided has to admit 25% children of children belonging to weaker and disadvantaged group of the society. The common understanding was that the RTE is applicable from Class I to VIII and hence pre-primary children will have no Right to Admission in private unaided schools. But as per as per Section 12 subsection 1 (c) of the said Act all private unaided schools should have reserved 25% of the strength of that class, for children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group in the neighbor and admitted the children as per this provision. However as per our knowledge none of the unaided private school followed the said mandatory procedure and openly flouted the norms/rules of The Right to Free & Compulsory Education Act-2009. Section 12 sub-section 1 (c) states that "specified in sub-section (iii) and (iv) of clause (n) of section 2 shall admit in class I, to the extent of at least twenty-five percent of the strength of that class, children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group in the neighbourhood and provide free and compulsory elementary education till its completion; Provided that where a school specified in clause (n) of section 2 (all unaided schools not receiving any kind of aid or grant to meet its expenses from the appropriate Government or the local authority, aided schools and schools of specified category like Kendriya Vidyalaya) imparts pre-school education, the provisions of clauses (a) schools established, owned & controlled by Govt. (b) aided school receiving aid or grants from the Govt. (c) schools belonging to specified category like Kendra Vidyalaya and (d) unaided private schools not receiving any grant or aid from Govt. or local authority, shall apply for admission to such pre-school education". . Therefore it is very much clear that those schools (private unaided and aided) imparting education from pre-school / pre-primary have to admit / reserve 25% of their strength of that class for children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group in the neighbourhood. The schools have also flouted the provisions of act by admitting children staying as far as 15 to 20 kms. from the school. Children from Borivli, Kings Circle, Dadar got admission in Santacruze school, similarly children from Dadar to Bandra, Byculla to Colaba, Worli to Pedder Road, Sion to Dahisar etc. Children of 3 years are are travelling more than 3 hours (to and fro) daily to attend school. This is also against the provisions of law and hardships to children. Under the said circumstances we strongly demands that the Government must cancel/scrap all admissions to Pre-primary section in unaided private schools with immediate effect and frame a policy for a transparent admission procedure as per the guidelines of RTE. we also demand that the schools which have failed to follow the procedure are liable for punishment and penalty as per the provisions of RTE and fresh admissions on the basis of 25% reservation for children belonging to weaker section and disadvantaged group ought to be given considering the neighborhood policy by maintaining transparency in the whole admission procedure. My client also states that care ought to be taken that No Capitation Fee is being charged and or no Interviews are being conducted. We also insist the Government to appoint a High Level Committee to supervise and implement the above sections of RTE, for the betterment of the common people of the society bringing them at par with the other private schools in the State. Under the afore stated circumstances, we hereby called upon request the Government to reply the instant notice in writing within 15 days, failing which we will have no other option but to approach the Hon’ble High Court by way of PIL, which please note. _______________________________________________________________________________ DRAFT RULES OF RIGHT TO FREE & COMPULSORY EDUCATION - Prepared by Government of Maharashtra, Published for Public Opinion / Suggestions. Last date of submission is 25th November, 2010. Copy of Rules....... Click the link below . GOOD NEWS FOR PARENTS & TEACHERS - Provide information under RTI or be ready for De-recognition. Copy of Order....... Click the link below: Issue for determination: Some of the Important Paras of the Order. Whether the third party, a private school performing public function, can refuse to furnish the information under Section 8(1)(j) of the Act, particularly when the FAA (First Appellate Authority) of the respondent has ordered for disclosure of information. We hold that the orders passed by the First Appellate Authority directing the third party (School) to provide complete information to the appellant and the decision of the Commission affirming the orders of the First Appellate Authority are perfectly in compliance with the provisions of the Act. The third party (School) is hence obliged to comply with the said orders. The Commission, therefore, directs the Respondent (Director of Education) to seek compliance of the aforementioned order from the third party-Pinnacle School to provide information as sought at Serial Numbers (i) to (x), (xiv) and (xv) of the RTI application of the appellant dated 11.2.2008 within 15 days from the date of receipt of this decision and submit compliance immediately thereafter. The information should be furnished free of cost as per Section 7(6) of the Act, failing which appropriate action would be initiated against the concerned officials. The issues relating to management and regulation of schools responsible for promotion of education are so important for development that it cannot be left at whims and caprices of private bodies, whether funded or not by the Government. The Director, Directorate of Education should, therefore, ensure compliance of these directions including the order of the First Appellate Authority dated 23.4.2008. In case the School in question fails to cooperate in the matter, appropriate action under relevant rules should be initiated for de-recognition of the school activities. A compliance report should be submitted at the earliest. This order was passed (after the High Court directed CIC to settle the issue) by a Larger Bench of Central Information Commission – New Delhi. Therefore, it it applicable to all States of India. Our Comments: The parents and teachers have been kept in dark by the school managements as well as the government by claiming exemptions under various Sections including Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act and thereby conceding applicability of the RTI Act to them. Since, the matter has already been resolved by the Central Information Commission the Private School Managements / Government should not mislead the public and must provide the required information without delay. The Private Educational Institutions failed to show / provide information related to Income & Expenditure Account and Balance Sheet and Service Records of Teachers. But now it is mandatory, Parents and teachers will also come to know whether there is any element of profiteering or not. The government should take strict action against schools /colleges not providing the information. | The Tamil Nadu government has fixed the fees of more than 10,000 private self-financing schools across the state. The decision was taken after a detailed study into the matter by the Private Schools Fee Determination Committee, a statutory body appointed by the state government. The new fee structure PER YEAR has put the fees of the Higher Secondary at Rs. 11,000, the High School (SECONDARY) at Rs. 9000, the Middle School (PRIMARY) at Rs. 8000 and the Elementary School (PRE-PRIMARY) at Rs. 5000 per annum. The fees have been fixed for 10, 934 schools in the state. The government had enacted the ‘Regulation of Collection of Fee Rules 2009’ according to which the statutory body chaired by Retired Judge Justice Govindarajan was mooted. The fees structure was finalized considering the income (fees collected from students) and the expenditure of the school including salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff, electricity and telephone expenses etc. There was no fixed rate for the fees collected from students by several private schools and they were exorbitantly high. There was also demand for high donations for various reasons. This led to protests between the school authorities and parents. The new rule has come as a real blessing for the parents. About MAHARASHTRA (Our Comments) The School Managements (Private Unaided Schools Forum) of Mumbai has been repeatedly quoting few paras of Supreme Court Judgment of TMA Pai and insisting that the management of unaided schools have the right to fix their own fee structure and administer the institution. Does it mean to say that the Chennai Government and Madras High Court or Supreme Court (the matter was also challenged in the Supreme Court but was dismissed) are not aware of TMA Pai Judgement? or that the Government of Maharashtra is deliberately not appointing competent counsels to argue? or rather the government of Maharashtra is not willing to regulate the fees of unaided schools due to the fact that more than 60% of the institutions belongs to Politicians / or Babus? It is high time, now we will force the government to regulate fees and admissions of unaided schools, at the earliest. Whereas the Government of TamilNadu has been fighting for parents and defended their ACT till Supreme Court but it is no so here in Maharashtra. The Politicians and Ministers are taking parents for ride by fooling them sine last more than 10 years. If the Government of TamilNadu can Regulate, why not the Government of Maharashtra? Madras High Court Order....... Click the link below:
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[RTI] RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT APPLICABLE TO PRIVATE UNAIDED INSTITUTIONS
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TAMILNADU FIXES FEES of PRIVATE UNAIDED SCHOOLS
The rule faced a lot of hurdles to reach the present situation. The regulation of fees structure as per the Govindarajan Committee report was challenged by the private schools in the court. Js KBK Vasuki stayed the operation of the committee report fixing individual fees structure for schools till the disposal of the writ petitions, on September 14. After the stay order, there were stray protests by the parents against the demand of high fees from students. Prince Gajendra Babu, an activist, filed a petition against the stay order. The state government also followed suit. Finally on October 5, 2010 the Madras High Court’s First Bench comprising of Chief Justices MY Eqbal and TS Sivagnana set aside the single judge interim order.