Hyderabad, June 10: All private schools in the city have been told to submit their fee details, duly approved by the governing council of the school comprising at least two members representing the parents, by June 20.
The Hyderabad collector, Mr Natarajan Gulzar, has directed the district education officials to issue notices to schools that fail to submit the fee details along with a resolution approved by the governing council by June 20. The managements will be given 10 days to comply with the norms, failing which the officials will initiate the process to ‘derecognise’ such schools.
“We will post the details of all such schools on a website after June 20. Parents will be intimated that these schools will be derecognised, since they had failed to submit their fee details,” Mr Gulzar said.
The decision was taken in a meeting held with the managements of private schools at Ravindra Bharathi on Thursday. The move comes in the wake of complaints against several schools that they had constituted ‘fake’ Parent Te-acher Associations to obtain approval for fee hikes.
When some school managements raised objections over obtaining an approval from the PTAs and instead suggested that the approval be taken from the school governing council, Mr Gulzar said, “In that case, the governing council should have at least two parents as members. They should represent the entire parent community of that school. Their names should be displayed prominently on school notice boards.”
All the schools were dire-cted to submit the names of the two parents appointed in the governing council.