To express solidarity with parents’ complaint against public schools related to hike in tuition fee, failing the students studying in Classes I-VIII, charging capitation fee, charging fee for releasing transfer certificate and others, National Students Union of India (NSUI) activists led by its member Sandeep Kumar staged protest at St Jude’s School and raised slogans against the management on Thursday.
later he met state education minister Mantri Prasad Naithani and requested him to take appropriate actions against the public schools.
Dozens of NSUI protesters assembled outside the school campus and shouted slogan agaianst the school administration. Kumar alleged that most of the public schools have hiked its tuition fee by 15-20 per cent in the name of construction of additional rooms, sports fee, transport fee and others. Apart from this, schools instructs the students to purchase text books and uniforms from prescribed shops and charging fee for releasing transfer certificate and others.
According to him, the union had staged protest against these public schools earlier and district officers had also directed schools to implement Right to Education Act in their schools. Despite all this, public schools turned a deaf ear and did not implement RTE Act. Kumar warned that the union will intensify their protest across the State unless their demands are met soon. He informed that dozens of NSUI activists led by Kapil Bora also protested outside GRD School and raised slogans against school management in support of above demands.
In another development, the students of Uttranchal Dental College protested at collectorate against college administration for charging extra fee for releasing degree. later they met the Dehradun district magistrate and submitted memorandum to him. According to protesters, their BDS (Bachelor in Dental Surgery) course was completed in the month of March this year, but college charges additional fee for releasing degree.