Parents want regulation of school fees: Survey
New Delhi, July 3: A survey has found that 93 per cent parents want annual fees charged by the private schools to be a capped at one month of tution fee.
"Schools adopt various ways to hike the total fees. While the tuition fee may not be hiked, all other fees like annual/admission fee are raised indiscriminately by the schools. Hence, when asked whether this fee, under the head of annual or admission fee, should be limited to one month of tuition fee, 93 per cent of the citizens agreed," the survey by LocalCircles revealed.
For the survey, the LocalCircles community social media platform received over 58,000 responses from over 21,000 parents in 215 districts in the country.
The survey also focused on the ways to regulate school fee hikes, with the majority of parents (54 per cent of 13,317 votes) feeling that the percentage of hike should be linked to inflation.
One of the biggest arguments given by schools for raising fees is to enhance the quality of education or maintain it but in the polls, parents do not seem to be convinced of this line.
Almost 77 per cent of 7,205 parents say that capping of fees would not affect the quality of education.
In the survey, a majority of parents have also suggested that it should be made mandatory for all schools to publish their annual statement of costs on their website.
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Lokayukta sleuths raid eight govt officers in disproportionate assets case
Bengaluru (PTI): The Karnataka Lokayukta sleuths on Tuesday conducted simultaneous raids on eight government officers across the state in connection with alleged disproportionate assets cases, officials said.
According to Lokayukta sources, the raids were carried out in the morning at the residences and offices of at least eight officials serving in different departments and districts, including Kodagu, Bidar and Mysuru.
Among those searched is I K Puttaswamy, an Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) posted at Harangi Dam sub-division in Kodagu district.
In Bidar, searches were conducted against Suresh K L, retired Finance Controller at the Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University (KVAFSU), Nandinagar.
Officials said Shivanna, Deputy Director in the Fisheries Department in Ballari, was also covered under the operation.
In Mysuru, premises linked to Kiran Kumar, Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department, were searched.
In Chitradurga, raids were conducted against Susheelamma, a retired accounts assistant, while in Mangaluru, Babu B N, serving as an Assistant Drug Controller, was among those targeted.
Similarly, in Shivamogga, Shobha K R, District Officer at the Backward Classes Welfare Department and Ajay Singh, Assistant Executive Engineer in the District Urban Development Cell, were also subjected to searches.
"A coordinated operation was launched this morning against multiple officials suspected to have amassed assets disproportionate to their known sources of income," a Lokayukta official said.
"The searches are being carried out at several locations simultaneously and are still in progress," the official added.
