CM Rupani chairs meeting with school operators to fix new fee formula on SC directive

Gandhinagar:

CM Vijay Rupani today chaired a meeting of representatives of managements of private schools and government officials as per the directions of the Supreme Court for deciding a joint fee formula considering the extra curricular activities and fix a percentage of fees as profit to be used to meet the objectives of the trust/societies running the schools and development of educational activities.

Education Minister Bhupendra Chudasama also remained present in the meeting.

Another round of such meeting would again be held after 10 days.

The apex court during its hearing on appeals with regard to the Gujarat Self-financed Schools (Regulation of Fees) Act, 2017had recently directed the Gujarat government and the managements of private schools to jointly evolve a formula to fix a percentage of fees as profit that can be generated by schools. The SC also ordered that private schools use the profits only to meet the objectives of the trust/society, for development of educational activities.

An official said that formula for fixing the proportion of profits for the trust and to fix fees for the extra curriculum activities that several schools offer were the main agenda of the meeting.

The final formula is to be submitted before the court in the second week of July.

After the second meeting, the formula is likely to be prepared.

DeshGujarat