After recently appealing to house owners to waive off or defer payment of rent of their tenants for three months, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday urged all private educational institutions in the State to consider reduction or deferment of students’ school fees. He called upon the managements of private educational institutions to be sympathetic for considering reduction or deferment of school fees from April to June.
Such a gesture of the educational institutions would be of great help for parents, whose incomes have been adversely affected due to the lockdown and associated economic stress following coronavirus outbreak, the CM said in a tweet,
Notably, the CM had on Thursday announced that all schools, colleges and other educational institutions would remain closed till June 17 in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, the State Government also decided to promote Class-IX students to Class-X without conducting examination of the remaining one subject.