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School charging higher fee from disabled,
NGO tells court
Tuesday October 16, 2012 07:24:27 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A private
school in Delhi has been charging higher fee from the students
with disabilities, said a petition filed Tuesday in Delhi High
Court.
NGO Social Jurist filed the plea through advocate Ashok Agarwal
and said Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Mehta Vidyalaya at K.G. Marg in
central Delhi had been charging 38-39 percent higher fee from
students with disabilities.
The petition is likely to come up in court Wednesday.
The plea sought directions to the school to stop over-charging
disabled students and refund the excess money collected from them
in the last three years.
The petition said that "the students with disabilities were
charged fee and other charges around 38-39 percent higher than
what was charged from general students in the academic year
2012-13".
"A Class 4 student with disabilities was charged a tuition fee of
Rs.44,640 and a general student of the same class was charged
Rs.32,160 during 2012-13," the petition said.
Over-charging disabled students was "totally illegal, unjust and
against the provisions of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education Act, 2009 and the provisions of UN Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities".
The school has 80 students with disabilities, advocate Agarwal
said.
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