No forcible collection of school fees: Orissa HC Cuttack: The Orissa High Court Tuesday barred private schools from collecting fees in a forcible manner in the prevailing situation. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Bishwanath Rath pronounced the order while hearing a case seeking waiver of fees by private schools in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. The HC order on the school fee will be in force till the next hearing on the case, scheduled for January 7, 2021. Bibhuti Bhusan Choudhury, counsel for the private school guardians’ association, informed the HC that some private schools were forcing parents to pay the schools fees. These schools were also preventing students from availing online classes and writing exams over non-payment of fees.
Odisha ICSE schools oppose MoU on fee waiver The report stated that following mediation with different stakeholders, an MoU was signed on different slabs of fees reduction for separate categories of unaided private schools. Share Via Email | A+A A- By Express News Service CUTTACK: The issue of school fee waiver, being adjudicated by the Orissa High Court, took a new turn on Thursday with the Association of Odisha ICSE Schools raising objection to the report submitted by the Principal Secretary of School and Mass Education department. The report stated that following mediation with different stakeholders, an MoU was signed on different slabs of fees reduction for separate categories of unaided private schools. In an affidavit, association secretary Father S Joseph opposed the report on the ground that English medium schools like the 50 DAV and around 100 ICSE schools functioning in the State were not among the stakeholders who signed the M0U.