A Delhi High Court-appointed panel has recommended that 58 unaided private schools in the national capital refund "unjustly" hiked fees to parents.
"The committee has recommended refund of fee unjustly hiked by 58 schools. Among them are 11 schools, where the committee, besides recommending the refund, has also recommended special inspection to be carried out by the Directorate of Education (DoE)," the three-member panel headed by former Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Anil Dev Singh said.
The second interim report, filed before a bench of justices B D Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul, said the panel examined the fee hike by 148 schools and found that there was no need to recommend refund of fees by 63 schools.
"In respect of 63 schools, the committee has not recommended any intervention as the schools were found to have either not hiked the fee in pursuance of the order dated February 11, 2009, issued by the DoE or the fee hiked was found to be within or near about the tolerance limit of 10 percent or the fee hike was found to be justified, considering the additional burden on account of implementation of Sixth Pay Commission report," the report said.