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Kaski private schools hike fees by up to 25 per cent  
Private and boarding schools in Kaski district have hiked their enrolment and monthly fees
by 12 to 25 per cent. There are 131 private and boarding schools affiliated to the PABSON and PABSON-Nepal.
Kaski PABSON chairman Krishna KC said the fees were hiked keeping in teachers’ revised pay scale and rising inflation. KC said though private and boarding schools were governed by company laws, they could hike the fees with the assent of their boarding and management committees. KC added that neither PABSON nor PABSON-Nepal had a hand in the hike.
KC said the fees were hiked keeping in view the government-fixed ceiling. He added the schools were bound to inform the district education office concerned in advance about their decision to hike enrolment and monthly fees.
PABSON Nepal’s Kaski chairman Ram Prasad Sharma said the hike was not meant to rake in profits but to cover costs in view of teachers’ revised pay scale and inflation. However, he flayed the private and boarding schools for hiking fees this year saying that they had hiked the fees last year as well. Sharma said
there were 41 schools under the PABSON-Nepal and claimed that they were charging less
than the 90 schools affiliated to the PABSON.
Meanwhile, the Kaski Guardians’ Association has urged the private and boarding schools not to hike fees
arbitrarily. Association president Hem Raj Baral issued a press
release, appealing to the schools not to charge higher fees. He also urged the government to ensure symmetry in fee structure of all schools. Kaski Chief District Officer Surya Prasad Gautam said 75 per cent of private and boarding schools based in Kaski district had submitted details of the fee hike to him.
CDO Gautam said action would be taken against those schools that do not provide facilities commensurate with the fees charged. Gautam said he would soon chair a meeting of the PABSON-Nepal, PABSON and guardians to determine the fee structure and added that a monitoring team would conduct on-the-spot surveys of schools’ infrastructure and the facilities being provided by them.