Allahabad High Court has sent notices to the Central Board of
Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Indian Certificate of Secondary
Education (ICSE) instructing them to file their response on a PIL
seeking to regulate exorbitant fees charged by self-financed private
schools.
The High Court
has sought the response from the boards within four weeks and more than
that. A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Abdul Moin passed the order on
the PIL filed by Laik Ahmad.
This is what PIL demands
The
PIL demanded the establishment of a fee regularity commission headed by
a retired high court judge to regulate fees to be fixed by private
schools.
The two boards should use their powers to control
private schools in fixing fees "as they cannot shut their eyes after
grating recognition to run a school".
The petitioner demands immediate action
In
view of the delay in passing of a proposed legislation to be tabled in
the UP Legislature to control fees charged by private schools, the
petitioner had also sought that till they said enactment is passed by
the Legislature, the UP government should be directed to issue some
circular to control the fees to be charged during the 2018-19 session.
The
petitioner's counsel Sandeep Yadav pleaded that in Gujarat, the
government enacted a law in 2017 to regulate the fees and it was
affirmed by the Gujarat High Court.
Seeking the HC's intervention, the petitioner has demanded immediate action by the state government on the issue.