Six-month fee waiver for 24.5 K Class IX, X govt school students

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 3

In view of the prevailing situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic background of the parents of the students studying in government schools, the Chandigarh Administration has waived the annual and monthly fee of around 24,500 students studying in Classes IX and X for the first six months of the 2020-21 academic session.

The UT Education Department will now bear an expenditure of Rs1.70 crore. An official order by Arun Gupta, Principal Secretary, Education, UT, read, “In view of the present situation and the economic background of the parents of students studying in government schools of Chandigarh, the annual and monthly fee of Class IX and X students has been waived from April 2020 till September 2020 as a one-time measure.”

The existing fee structure for Classes IX and X includes annual charges of Rs164 and monthly dues of Rs152. However, no tuition fee was charged from students belonging to the Scheduled Caste category. They were only paying 50 per cent of the monthly and annual fee. Besides, no tuition fee was charged from boys belonging to the Other Backward Class (OBC) category, wards of ex-servicemen, widow and physical challenged with parental annual income less than Rs1.5 lakh.