PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, Oct 7: DAV group in Ranchi have increased the tuition fees by 75 per cent in the past 10 years. While politicians battle it out over inflation and the prices of onions and brinjals, the probable blow for the Ranchi middle class with its obsession for a ‘good’ education is the rising school expenses.
The tuition fees for class X in 2010 were Rs 1920 which has increased to Rs 3375 in 2021.
The Assistant Regional Officer of DAV Zone F, MK Sinha said that the prices increased are totally justifiable according to the increasing prices and it is necessary to maintain the staff in the schools.
“We have taken care of the parents who have come up with the requests of providing concession in the fees due to the pandemic,” he further added.
“Every year there is a hike. Every few days there is something or the other in the school for which I have to cough up more money,” said a parent with two children studying in a chain of DAV schools.
“My child has to carry water bottle daily, schools cannot even provide the facility of safe drinking water, but they can increase the fees every year,” a parent residing in Kadru said.
“Schools are not ready to develop their infrastructure, not even a playing ground, but fees are to be increased every year,” a parent residing in Argora said.
Talking to a group of parents they said that education has become a business and the high tuition fees did not actually indicate the academic standard of a school. Rather it indicates a demand-supply function so that the school management could effect erratic fee hikes every year for which parents cannot even protest.
