Extra Admission Fees
Govt gives 3 schools 1 month for refund
Five months past its earlier directive, the government yesterday gave three prominent non-government schools in the capital one month to return or adjust in monthly fees the extra money the institutions had charged during admissions.
Punitive measures, including cancellation of monthly pay order (MPO), will be taken if the schools, Ideal School and College, Motijheel; Viqarunnisa Noon School and College; and Monipur High School and College, do not comply, said education ministry officials.
The government, on January 30, directed schools having “a section” of teachers enjoying MPO facilities not to charge over Tk 8,000 in admission and other fees for Bangla and Tk 10,000 for English mediums.
Schools having all their teachers enjoying MPO facilities must not charge over Tk 5,000. But most of the schools did not comply.
The ministry, in a letter yesterday, asked the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) to serve notices to these institutions.
Yesterday's directive came following a report by a four-member DSHE committee which recently visited 17 schools in the capital to see if January's directive was being complied with.
The report found that Ideal School and College realised an excess of Tk 3.39 crore by enrolling 3,049 class I students in Bangla and English mediums.
Viqarunnisa Noon School and College realised Tk 68.17 lakh as extra fee from 1,627 class I students in both mediums while Monipur High School and College realised an excess Tk 5.23 crore by enrolling 3,054 students.
The extra fees had not been returned or adjusted as the governing bodies of the three schools did not have any decision in this regard, said the report.
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