Regulatory authority should be made in Punjab to fix tuition fee: CPI

Ludhiana, April 19, 2016: Expressing solidarity with the ongoing agitation by the parents against the increase in the tuition fees and imposition of annual charges/development fund/building fund on the students the Communist Party of India (CPI) has strongly condemned the government for its failure to provide education to all.
In a statement here today, Com Kart Singh Bowani, Dr Arun Mitra, D P Maur, Ramesh Rattan and Gurnam SIdhu, added because of apathetic attitude and totally shirking from its constitutional obligation to provide education to all which is also a human right of all the citizens, there has been mushrooming of private schools. The corporate sector has opened such schools with totally a business perspective completely uncaring the needs of the present day society and the common citizens of the country. What to talk of poor people even the middle classes cannot afford to send their wards in such schools. It is unfortunate that the government has cut down its education budget. This is leading to huge difference in the quality of education among the various sections of the society. This will cause highly adverse effect in the society in the coming period.
They demanded that the government should open governments schools with all modern facilities in large numbers which should be labeled as area schools and children should be admitted in the schools area wise. In the developed countries including USA and Canada the government takes full responsibility for school education and there are area schools running successfully.
They also demanded that a regulatory authority should be made in the state to fix the tuition fee and other issues.