Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 22: Division Bench of State High Court comprising Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice MK Hanjura today directed State to either reconstitute Fee Fixation Committee or extend the term of old one within two weeks.
When the matter was taken-up, Senior Advocate Sunil Sethi with Advocate Parimoksh Seth appearing on behalf of schools submitted that the State Government may frame a policy of increasing the fee by a certain percentage amount across the board on an annual basis dependent on certain criteria such as rate of inflation etc.
“Apart from this, in case any school requires enhancement more than the prescribed rate then on a case to case basis, the committee would consider the cases individually”, they further said, adding “the committee which was constituted earlier is no longer in position because the term of the Chairman of the Committee has expired”.
Upon this, Division Bench directed that the State Government shall ensure that the committee is either reconstituted or the old committee’s term is extended so that the work will not suffer.
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