School fees
Thanks to our government, especially our education minister Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid for taking the initiative to cut down VAT from private university students. This is indeed a great relief for their parents who find it quite difficult to defray their educational fees in most of the cases. I would now request our government to monitor the fees in English medium schools as they are charging fees at high rate with additional VAT. There is no policy amongst those English Medium Schools and as a result everybody is charging fees as per their wishes. Adding to this headache another additional cost is bus fare. Many schools have moved to Uttara, Ashulia and other distant places which have allowed the school authorities to charge a handsome amount as bus fares. Schools are charging full bus fare even when the school is open for 5/6 days in some months. I, as a parent, am finding it quite amazing to see that nobody is monitoring this increased fees and fares. Education should not be a business. I hope somebody will pay heed to this problem.
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