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Stop capitation fee, urges Krishna Iyer

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: The former judge of Supreme Court V.R. Krishna Iyer has invited the attention of Education Minister M.A. Baby into collection of capitation fee by private management schools.

In a letter addressed to the Minister, he said that since capitation fee was illegal, different excuses, dubious and devious, are resorted to, ‘building fund’ being a popular one.

“Leftist Government should not abet or tolerate this exploitation which has become common with many prestigious managements. More outrageous is the caste-creed based discrimination in the amount levied. It appears some concession is shown if the admission is to a higher class in the same school by a student of that school. A secret investigation will reveal the truth and the Education Department must take punitive action and launch prosecution criminally”.

“I am told that this practice has been prevailing for a long time. State taciturnity is betrayal of responsibility if what I have stated is fact ,” he added.

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