Parents protest 'fee hike' in Ghaziabad public schools

Alleging arbitrary fee hike by city public schools, scores of parents have staged a protest at the collectorate here and handed over a memorandum to the district magistrate.
The protesters, under the banner of Parents' Social Welfare Association, on Saturday handed over the memorandum addressed in the name of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Addressing a gathering of parents, President of the Association Kiran Sharma said that public schools have monopolised the field of imparting education and are bent upon hiking the tuition fee without taking into consideration the paying capacity of the parents.
District Magistrate Vimal Kumar Sharma assured the office bearers of the association that the memorandum will be forward to the CM's office in due course of time.

Inspector of schools had earlier identified 337 schools mushroomed in the district which were either not affiliated or were imparting education to higher classes for which they were not permitted by concerned educational boards.
Furthermore, these schools were not admitting students from poor background.