Though there is nothing new in it that private schools are devising new cash fleecing practices under the garb of admission fee, annual tuition fee, monthly bus fee and other school charges time and again but lately they have devised a novel cash fleecing practice to charge bus fee for the winter months ( the vacation period from January to February end) after the announcement of the shifting of examination session from November to March by J&K Board of School Education (J&K BOSE). Though Jammu & Kashmir Fee Fixation & Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) has recently announced 14% hike in the bus fee charged by private schools but it has not noticed the implementation of a new cash fleecing practice in charging bus fee unilaterally by private schools for the winter months when schools will be shut for vacations as per the past practice. Asking parents to either submit applications for cancellation of bus service from November to February end ( a month before the commencement of the vacation period) on their own choice or not to do so for continuation of schools bus service by paying the monthly bus fee even for the winter vacation periods shows that both missionary and non missionary private schools shamelessly grab every opportunity to exploit parents of their enrolled students in the name of bus fee time and again. Parents of the students reserve the right to seek a clarification from the J&K Fee Fixation & Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) that are private schools at liberty to charge bus fee from the parents of the enrolled students even for the vacation periods or not ? Since the overall fee structure for private schools is to be devised by J&K Fee Fixation & Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) as per the standing rules, the private schools ( both missionary & non missionary) cease the power and authority to announce and implement any change in the overall fee structure or a part of it say bus fee without the formal consent and approval of J&K FFRC.
The J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) is legally and administratively obliged to take suo moto cognizance of the implementation of a highly objectionable change in the bus fee payment procedure by both missionary and non missionary private schools for the vacation period from November till February end. Never forget that any delay in taking a suo moto cognizance of the implementation of a highly objectionable change in the bus fee payment procedure by both missionary and non missionary private schools for the vacation period (From November to February end) could become a precedence which can’t be reversed in future.
As such by all standards of understandabilities the J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) is legally and administratively obliged to take suo moto cognizance of the implementation of a highly objectionable change in the bus fee payment procedure by both missionary and non missionary private schools for the vacation period from November till February end. Never forget that any delay in taking a suo moto cognizance of the implementation of a highly objectionable change in the bus fee payment procedure by both missionary and non missionary private schools for the vacation period (From November to February end) could become a precedence which can’t be reversed in future.
