New Delhi: Congress leader Ajay Maken on Friday slammed the Delhi government for giving the go-ahead to private schools to charge one-month tuition fee and demanded that the state should bear a major part of the expenses on salaries of their teachers.
The former Union Minister said, "It is wrong to ask private schools to take a month's fee. How will the parents pay the fee when there is a lockdown? The Delhi government should pay 75 per cent of expenses borne on teachers' salaries so that these schools get relief and waive three-month fees." In Delhi, 66 per cent of children are enrolled in private schools.
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No private school in the national capital can hike fees or can charge anything from the parents other than one-month tuition fee, Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia announced on Friday.
Maken also demanded that the government waive fixed electricity charges and water bills for all establishments facing closure due to the lockdown extended till May 3.
"The government should issue SOP and notification for people who are exempted during lockdown to insulate these people from infections," said Maken and gave the example of a pizza delivery boy who tested positive for coronavirus.