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Action plan for regulation of tuition fee soon: Minister

Special Correspondent

HYDERABVAD: Secondary Education Minister D. Manikya Vara Prasada Rao said in the Legislative Council that the government will soon come up with an action plan to regulate tuition fee in the recognised schools in the State.

Replying to a question, he said a three-member study committee gave its report about fee being charged by various schools and government exercised control over the recognised schools and some more amendments were needed to the existing Act.

Social responsibility

Paladugu Nageswara Rao (Congress) suggested that the corporate schools and recognised schools should be directed to provide admission to a specific percentage of poor students as their social responsibility.

The private sector should also contribute its mite towards a literate society by coming to the aid of students from downtrodden families, he felt. Others suggested that even unrecognised schools should be monitored.

Chukka Ramaiah (PDF) raised concern about the long hours of instruction imparted to the schoolchildren as against the norms of four-hour instruction to primary schoolchildren, including two hours of play and five hours for secondary school students.

Academic stress

In the name of residential schools, students were being subjected to academic stress without provision of sports and extra-curricular activities, he said.

In addition to the burden of bag, the burden of instruction was killing creative thinking of student and their all-round development. He also sought action against schools running classes in summer without giving vacations to the students as is mandatory.

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