Kathmandu: The Ministry of Education has begun monitoring of private schools in the capital after they were found charging parents of their students irregularly. The new academic year starts from mid-April but majority of the institutional or private schools have already completed entrance exam and enrolment.
The proprietors of Paragon school were summoned after they were found to have increase tuition fee by 60 per cent, according to the District Education Office in Kathmandu. Other schools have also been found to have increased fee by 10 to 50 per cent. District Education Officer of Kathmandu Jaya Acharya said that the monitoring would begin from the first week of the new academic year and schools found charging fee against the standard would be punished.
The Office has set a limit of Rs. 3,675 as monthly fee up to secondary level for private schools. However, schools add different headings to charge exorbitantly.
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