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Court issues notice for overcharging disabled students
Thursday October 18, 2012 10:33:15 AM,
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School charging higher fee from disabled,
NGO tells court
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. »
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New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court Wednesday sought a reply from the city government on a
petition alleging that a private school here was charging higher
fees from students with disabilities as compared to other
students.
The court's direction came on a petition filed by NGO Social
Jurist through advocate Ashok Agarwal seeking direction to
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Mehta Vidyalaya at K.G. Marg in central
Delhi to stop over-charging disabled students and refund the
excess money collected from them in the last three years.
A division Chief Justice D. Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai
Endlaw issued notices to director of education (DoE) and the
school.
The petition said that the school had been charging 38-39 percent
higher fees from students with disabilities.
The court would next hear the matter Nov 21.
The petition said: "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 the Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education Act, 2009, and the provisions of the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities," the
petition said.
The school has 80 students with disabilities, advocate Agarwal
said.
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