EWS students in turmoil over paid education
EWS students in turmoil over paid educationon Apr 08, 2021 Gaurav and Vishal were promoted to Class IX for the 2021-22 academic session at St Thomas’ School in Dwarka. Their father, Jag Narayan, a mechanic, had been told even before the results were declared that the two boys would have to pay the full fees from now on or leave the school. The youngsters did not even know they had been studying for free under the economically weaker section (EWS) quota in private schools. The shock realisation for the family is that the benefit of free education under the Right to Education Act in non-government institutions extends only till Class VIII.Jag Narayan had no option but to sign an agreement with the school, promising to pay his sons’ tuition fees — Rs 16,740 per child per quarter. And while he may have braved the daunting task of mobilising funds to give his children a real chance at the future, the Qutub Vihar Goyla Dairy resident is surely going to struggle. Many others despairing parents in a similar situation have no alternative but to move their children to government institutions because schools built on private land are not legally bound to provide free education under RTE.
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