MUMBAI: Giving an enormous reduction to oldsters through the coronavirus COVID-19 disaster, the Maharashtra Training Division has introduced that there can be no hike in class charges within the tutorial 12 months 2020-21.
The State Training Division additionally acknowledged that colleges shouldn’t drive mother and father to pay the remaining charges of the tutorial 12 months 2019-20 and the price for 2020-21 in a single go.
It added that the mother and father needs to be given extra cost choices for depositing the varsity charges.
‘’There can be no hike in class charges for this tutorial 12 months 2020-21. Dad and mom shouldn’t be compelled to pay the remaining price of the tutorial 12 months 2019-20 & the price for 2020-21 in a single go, they should be given month-to-month/quarterly cost choices,’’ the Maharashtra Training Division stated in its order.
The division has additionally requested the chief committee of the Mum or dad Academics Affiliation to overview and scale back charges if some sources remained unused through the lockdown.
In a authorities decision issued on Friday, the state College Training Secretary, Vandana Krishna stated, “Now we have acquired complaints from mother and father that some colleges are forcing them to pay charges through the COVD-19 lockdown. Colleges should not make it necessary for folks to pay charges through the lockdown.”
College Training Minister Varsha Gaikwad had earlier hinted that the Maharashtra authorities will quickly problem a notification urging colleges to not hike charges for the tutorial 12 months starting from June 2020, in view of the present coronavirus disaster.
This determination will present appreciable reduction to oldsters because the pandemic has impacted earnings, led to a lack of employment, and meant steep wage cuts for numerous individuals, she added.
