Telangana: TRSMA pitches for 15% school fee hike and Right to Fee Collection Act
The Telangana Recognised School Managements Association, which represents budget private schools in the State, wanted the Telangana Education Commission to propose the government, permitting them to increase tuition fee up to 15 per cent for 2025-26 and subsequent years.
Hyderabad: The budget private schools on Tuesday sought a 15 percent hike in the school fee and Right to Fee Collection Act in order to collect fee from parents, who were withdrawing their wards admission without paying the dues.
The Telangana Recognised School Managements Association (TRSMA), which represents budget private schools in the State, wanted the Telangana Education Commission to propose the government, permitting them to increase tuition fee up to 15 per cent for 2025-26 and subsequent years.
During a meeting with Commission Chairman Akunuri Murali, the association led by working president Shivarathri Yadagiri and chief advisor Yadagiri Shekar Rao cited several factors, including financial crunch due to low fee structure, non-payment of dues by parents, high building rents, escalating staff salaries and perks, and upgrading infrastructure, for pitching fee hike.
In the meeting, it was brought to the notice that some corporate schools were charging exorbitantly, often more than the private engineering colleges, even for the LKG and UKG classes. For this, the TRSMA proposed for district and state fee regulatory committees. However, the association wanted schools, charging below Rs.50,000, out of the district fee regulatory committee ambit.
The budget school managements wanted schools to be categorised into A, B, C and D depending on their facilities and fee charged, and accordingly charge property tax, besides changing power tariff slabs from commercial to domestic.
Further, seeking the Right to Fee Collection Act to be brought in, enabling schools to collect the fee from parents, the TRSMA said students should not be enrolled in a new school without TC and NOC issuance by the previous institution.
The authority to remove a student’s name should rest with State level officials but not with mandal and district officials, the association noted, and sought a rule mandating each society to run only one school.
The Commission intends to come up with a procedure to regulate the fee in both private and corporate schools, commencing with fee fixation. The fee may be finalised considering income, expenditure, facilities – basic amenities, library, sports, playground and among others, into the account.
