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80 private schools to refund excess fees to parents: Delhi HC panel

New Delhi: A panel set up by the Delhi High Court Friday recommended that 80 private schools have to refund the excess fees they charged in 2009 but did not pay salaries to their staff

IANS Published : May 09, 2014 21:54 IST, Updated : May 09, 2014 21:58 IST
The bench asked counsel of Delhi government to check the status of those school who had been asked to pay back excess amount to parents and posted the matter for Aug 1.

Advocate Ashok Aggarwal, appearing for the NGO Social Jurists which filed the case, told the bench that the more than 350 schools not implementing the recommendations of the committee to pay back the excess fee and also hiked the fee.

In the report, the committee said that many schools "unjustly" increased fees and recommended that all of them refund the same with 9 percent interest to the parents.

According to the report, the committee has said that 80 out of 150 schools found the fee hike to be "unjustified, either partially or fully", and hence recommended the refund of excess fee with interest.

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