Chandigarh: The Punjab government will file a Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) in the High Court this week against the decision of a single judge bench in the matter of payment of school fee during the lockdown period.
The issue came up for discussion informally during Wednesday's Cabinet meeting, after which Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh asked that the LPA should be filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court within this week, Advocate General Atul Nanda said later.
A single-judge bench of the High Court had, on June 30, ruled that all the schools were entitled to collect tuition fee irrespective of offering online classes during the lockdown. In her ruling, Justice Nirmaljit Kaur had said all schools, whether they offer online classes during the lockdown period or not, are entitled to collect the tuition fee.
