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State government directives on tuition fees

ith the Covid-19 pandemic and national lockdown severe cash flow problem and are unable to pay teachers’
Wforcing the mass closure of education institutions, salaries.
several state governments have issued circulars directing Several private school associations (NISA, FICCI Arise,
private school managements not to collect tuition fees Society for Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan etc) have
during the lockdown period. These circulars have jeopar- made representations to state governments and the Union
dized the financial stability of the country’s 375,000 pri- HRD ministry protesting these fee circulars on grounds
vate independent (unaided) K-12 schools, especially the that they are ill-considered and violative of the fundamen-
estimated 400,000 budget private schools (BPS) country- tal right of private school managements to engage in the
wide, and endangered the employment of 7 million teach- vocation of education.
ers. With parents withholding March-April tuition fees, a Given below an infographic depicting the severity of the
multiplying number of private schools are experiencing a fee collection directives in 22 states countrywide:

Impact on private school finances in the states

FINANCIAL IMPACT

High Medium Low Positive
Min 50%
100% salary
collected
STATE GOs* Partial fee No increase No fee to be Only tuition Only monthly to be paid to salary to be
fee to be
fee collection
in fee for AY
during
waiver
20-21 lockdown collected allowed staff paid to staff
Assam x x x
Telangana x x x x
Haryana x x x
Manipur x x x
Uttar Pradesh x x x
Karnataka x x x x
Delhi x x
Gujarat x
Jharkhand x
Madhya Pradesh x
Odisha x
Tamil Nadu x
Uttarakhand x
West Bengal x
Chhattisgarh x
Himachal Pradesh x
Maharashtra x
Punjab x
Rajasthan x
Chandigarh x
Andhra Pradesh x
Meghalaya x

S ource: Lo Estro A dvisors *Government Orders

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