New Delhi: The city government today informed
the Delhi High Court that it will set up within a week a panel headed by a former justice to examine the hikes in tuition fees by various unaided private schools and to audit their accounts.
Appearing for the Delhi government's Directorate of
Education (DoE), counsel Avnish Ahlawat informed the bench of
justices A K Sikri and Siddharth Mridul that the Directorate
would issue a notification within a week to set up the panel.
The court was hearing an application by Delhi Abhibhavak
Mahasangh seeking a direction to the government to "forthwith
issue a notification for constituting the Anil Dev Singh Committee" as per the court's earlier order.
Earlier, the same bench on August 12, had ordered to set up a three-member committee headed by Justice Singh to scrutinise the accounts of unaided private schools here.
It had also said the committee will also determine the
validity of the government's 2009 notification allowing
schools to hike tuition fees.
Ashok Agarwal, counsel for Delhi Abhibhavak Mahasangh,
had moved the application for constitution of the committee,
aggrieved by the government's "inaction" in forming the panel.
PTI
First Published: Friday, September 09, 2011, 20:02