A roundtable on education organised by SFI on Monday decried the free hand given to private schools to increase fee.
The provision of increasing 15 % fee every year in self-finance mode was leading to collection of exorbitant fee, secretary of Forum for Development of North Andhra A. Aja Sarma has said.
Closure of schools with a strength of less than 50 would hit education for the poor hard.
Education system was reduced to supply of cheap labour, he alleged.
A.P. Right to Education Forum convener Narava Prakasa Rao demanded that as per the act 25 % seats should be allotted to poor students and parents committees should work firmly for it.
Student leaders opposed corporate colleges running classes for Intermediate right from April 1 depriving students of summer holidays, and collecting high fees. Students were also under pressure with various entrance examinations. Corporate colleges were running the education sytem, they alleged.
Fee ranged from ₹12000 to ₹3 lakh in corporate schools for various classes with a high fee right from nursery-level.
Prasad (UTF), L. Chinnari and L.J. Naidu participated.
