“It has virtually become a routine practice for the private schools to receive notices and warnings from both the School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) and put them into dustbin year after year”.
Despite repeated directions from both the School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) over the recent complaints about violation of fee structure norms the private schools don’t show any adherence to J&K FFRC’s guidelines on admission fee norms. While Jammu and Kashmir Fee Fixation and Regulation of Fee (J&K FFRC) for Private Schools (J&K FFRC) has warned private schools for charging hefty admission fee in its latest notice to them, the private schools are as usual turning a deaf year to the warning of J&K FFRC as they don’t bother about any investigation which J&K FFRC says will be initiated against private schools violating admission fee guidelines. While both the School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) only warn private schools but don’t muster the courage to act against even a single schools for violating admission fee norms, it has virtually become a routine practice for the private schools to receive notices and warnings from both the School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) and put them into dustbin year after year. Unfortunately both the School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) instead of demonstrating their power and authority to initiate exemplary actions against private schools violating admission fee norms prefer to just continue with the routine practice of warning private schools through notices. While this is the general public perception that actions when taken with the spirit of enforcing accountability bring perceptible change in the functioning of institutions, both J&K FFRC and as well as School Education Directorate are unfortunately fast loosing their interest in regulation of admission fee at private schools for none of the obvious reasons year after year .
Shockingly most of the private schools receive the capitation fee without any cash receipt for it. While no school refunds the fee charged by them in violation of admission fee norms despite direction from School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) , the parents find themselves at the receiving end with both the School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) showing no courage to take any stringent against the schools charging extra fee either in the name of “developmental fee” or “capitation fee”.
While a single exemplary action against a single school is sufficient enough to convey a message of zero tolerance against violation of admission fee norms by private schools across Jammu & Kashmir , warnings and notices are obviously just part of the routine paper work which both the School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) do just for cooling down the rising public tempers against flagrant violation of admission fee norms by private schools. Shockingly most of the private schools receive the capitation fee without any cash receipt for it. While no school refunds the fee charged by them in violation of admission fee norms despite direction from School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) , the parents find themselves at the receiving end with both the School Education Directorate Kashmir and as well as J&K Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (J&K FFRC) showing no courage to take any stringent against the schools charging extra fee either in the name of “developmental fee” or “capitation fee”.
