Shiromani Akali Dal on Wednesday suggested the Punjab Government to pay six-month tuition and admission fee of the students of the private schools whose parents’ financial status is adversely affected by COVID-19 lockdown.
Reacting to School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla’s statement that the Government will challenge the single judge’s order, SAD MLA and former Minister Bikram Singh Majithia alleged that Punjab Government had surrendered before the private school managements.
He said that the Punjab Government should pay private school managements the tuition and admission fee of all children whose parents’ financial status had been adversely affected by the COVID-19 lockdown for a six month period from April to September 2020. The High Courts of Uttrakhand, Delhi and Kerala had given relief to the parents, he added.
Majithia, on the State Government’s decision to challenge the HC orders, said: “This amounts to mere lip service as this would take months, and by then, the future of children whose parents would not be able to pay the demanded fee would be spoiled.”
He said that if no assurance was forthcoming on this account, the SAD would launch an agitation in support of the parents from YPS Patiala. “SAD would also offer parents associations all help in fighting case in court,” he said.