Karnataka School Reopen: School fees hiked 15 to 20 per cent

Karnataka School Reopen: Some schools in Bengaluru have already started enrolment and some schools have raised fees by 30%. Some other schools have hiked fees by at least 15 to 20 per cent. Meanwhile, some schools are now pushing to pay the entire fee in one instalment.

Parents are frustrated with this strategy of private schools. The academic activity for the year 2024-25 has been started. Parents are dismayed to see the fee increase while enrolling their children in private schools. Meanwhile, now some private schools have started insisting to build in one instalment.

In private schools, the fee is between 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh and the parents are worried that the private schools are insisting to pay this fee in one instalment. Earlier parents were allowed three to four times to pay the fee. Parents do not pay fees in mid of the year. Some parents are insisting to pay the entire fee as if they change the school and don’t pay the fee then it will be lost.

Some schools are also offering loans to those who cannot pay their fees. But the parents are tensed as to how they can pay the fee of two lakhs in one go, said Yoganand, chairman of the parents’ coordination committee. Although the schools are ready to increase the fees, only the education department seems to be silent.

Private schools are trying to stop children from joining other schools by charging lakhs of fees and told them to pay the fees in one instalment. This should be prevented. And Child Rights Commission Chairman Nagana Goud has urged the School Education Department to issue notices to schools that put pressure on children and parents. It seems that only the management board of private schools is wrong with the parents.

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Some schools are bankrupt and parents go to such schools. Parents should be careful first. Earlier there was an option to pay the fee in instalments. Sasikumar, general secretary of the Union of Private Schools, said that the same opportunity should be given.

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It is unfortunate that only private educational institutes, regardless of what, have increased the fees in the current year compared to the last year, and then they are going to make money by charging lakhs of fees in one instalment.