Monitor fee Structure of Pvt. Schools...??

Q:
Should there be a Govt. cell to monitor the fee structure of pvt. schools ?

Yes, that’ll do a whole lot of good to bridge the “monetary divide” in the education system. We propagate the “right to education”, while at the same time there are schools making sure this right be limited to those with tones of money to spare for educating the child.

Education, in India today, has become a lucrative business. Government should intervene to make education in good schools affordable. Certain norms and regulations are a need of the hour to promote education only on the basis of ‘intellectual capacity’ of the student and not on the ‘monetary capacity’ of the parent!

Manisha Gupta

(published in "The Central Chronicle" on May 17, 2008)