AAP questions Badal’s silence
Monday, 18/04/2016
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CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday condemned the state government for its silence on the issue of private schools charging exorbitant fee.
AAP legal wing in-charge Himmat Singh Shergill and Lok Sabha member Prof Sadhu Singh, in a joint statement here, said when parents were protesting against the arbitrary fee hike in almost every district, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had failed to intervene to provide them relief.
“In a state, where government schools are already ruined and poor parents are forced to get their wards admitted in private schools, it is the state’s responsibility to ensure quality education to children at affordable rates,” said the AAP leaders.
The two said schools kept citing a Supreme Court judgment that allowed 10% fee hike every year, but the actual fee hike was over 20%, being done under the “patronage of Badals”.
