Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 16: Private Schools Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) today condemned the statements and misleading facts propagated by certain non-stakeholders and people of vested interests regarding the collection of fee by private schools.
In a statement issued here, the Association clarified that the Government order regarding the collection of fee will be strictly implemented but at the same time every child will be treated in a fair manner.
“The children of Government employees, pensioners, chemists, essential commodity traders and others whose income was not affected would have to pay 100 percent fee,” spokesperson of the Association said.
The statement said that there are a number of children whose family has taken a severe financial hit during the lockdown.
“…in those cases PSAJK has already constituted a scholarship and the students will be helped after verification on case to case basis. No poor students will be made to suffer,” the statement said.
The Association said that a myth is being created that all private schools in J&K are high end schools with huge fee structure, but the reality is that majority of schools are small schools with lesser fee.
“The big schools take the fee for the whole year at the start of the academic session and the so-called activists never target them. They only attack average, small schools,” said the spokesperson.
The Association said that the private schools employ around 65000 persons as teaching and non-teaching staff and the source of their salary is the fee component only.
The statement said that the Association also held a zoom meeting with representatives of Parents Association of Privately Administered Schools (PAPAS) represented by Asma Goni and others. Both sides discussed various issues faced by them and agreed to work for a mutually agreeable solution.
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