{"id":133468,"date":"2020-08-01T03:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=133468"},"modified":"2020-08-01T03:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:37:15","slug":"unions-oppose-high-admission-fees-being-charged-by-govt-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/08\/01\/unions-oppose-high-admission-fees-being-charged-by-govt-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions oppose high admission fees being charged by govt schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Karda Natam ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAPORIJO, Jul 31:<\/strong> The All Upper Subansiri District Students&#8217; Union (AUSDSU) and the All Tagin Students&#8217; Union in a representation to the education department here expressed resentment over &#8220;the high fee rate charged by the school authorities in Upper Subansiri district for students seeking admission, leading to gross violation of the prescribed government norms on admission procedure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that the education secretary has already notified every school in the state to charge admission fees of Rs 120 for classes 9-12, and Rs 100 for AISSE\/AISSCE (internal), the unions criticized the school authorities for charging high fees from students &#8220;amidst the harsh situation of Covid-19, when public, especially students belonging to poor background, are facing economic crisis at this hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several schools in the district are charging Rs 600 for admission in class 12, which is very high compared to the amount prescribed by the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unions asked the schools&#8217; authorities to immediately revoke the existing fee structure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AUSDSU also alleged that many government schools in the district are &#8220;violating the norms of RTE by charging high fee against the students from class 1 to class 8, which they are not supposed to be charged as per the guidelines in RTE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The union appealed to the higher authority to &#8220;make regular vigilance in Upper Subansiri district on education sector and initiate legal action against the school authorities if found violating of the education guidelines.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Karda Natam ] DAPORIJO, Jul 31: The All Upper Subansiri District Students&#8217; Union (AUSDSU) and the All Tagin Students&#8217; Union in a representation to the education department here expressed resentment over &#8220;the high fee rate charged by the school authorities in Upper Subansiri district for students seeking admission, leading to gross violation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}