IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, Feb 18: A Delhi High Court-appointed panel has recommended that 13 more private unaided schools be asked to return to parents the “unjustified” fees charged since 2009. The Justice Anil Dev Singh panel has sought return of the excess fee with 9% interest. The panel set up in 2011 has already recommended return of hiked fees from 621 schools in the National Capital.
The 13 schools are: Bal Bharti Public School, Delhi International School, Rich Harvest Public School, Vidya Public School, Happy Home, South Delhi School, Jivan Bharti School, Delhi International Happy School, Shiksha Bharti Public School, Rattan Chand Arya Public School, St Froebel School, National Victor Public School and Decent Public School.
The panel has so far examined the accounts of 1065 schools out of the total 1,172 unaided private schools in Delhi.
In 2011, acting on a PIL filed by an NGO Social Jurists, the Delhi High Court had set up the three-member panel headed by former chief justice of Rajasthan High Court Justice Anil Dev Singh. The NGO had sought audit of the financial records of all unaided private schools in the capital alleging that they hiked fees but did not pay salaries to teaching and non-teaching staff as per the sixth pay commission recommendations.
