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Kerala High Court: <\/b>A Division Bench of S. Manikumar ,CJ and Shaji P. Chaly, J. dismissed a writ petition on account of maintenance expenditure incurred by school even during lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n

The petitioners in the present case are students of Sree Buddha Central School who filed the instant petition seeking to direct the State Government to issue directions to the School for providing quality online\/virtual class using modern video conferencing techniques along with charging only monthly tuition fees and to ensure that no student is denied the same on the reason of failure to pay fees.<\/span><\/p>\n

The counsel of the petitioners Manu Ramchandran and Sameer M. Nair submitted while <\/span>referring to Rule 29 of the Kerala Education Rules, 1959 that respondent school is a recognized school and, therefore, cannot charge fees more than the prescribed as<\/span> schools can only charge fees to the extent<\/span> of the expenses for running it and the levy of fees is to be without any<\/span> profit motive.\u00a0 <\/span>He further submitted that during the lockdown from March to May, 2020, schools were closed and online classes commenced only from June 2020. Students have been asked to pay tuition fees for the above said period also wherein such digital classes were in the form of poor quality education as it was given through voice notes on whatsapp instead of proper and quality based online classes. <\/span><\/p>\n

The counsels for the respondents were Surin George IPE, S. Nirmal, R.T. Pradeep, M. Bindudas and K.C. Harish. It was submitted by the respondent school that <\/span>the school is only levying the fees charged on the former year without enhancing a single pie. It was further submitted that teaching, non teaching staff and IT professionals who were engaged in training teachers about online classes have to be paid their monthly salary, no matter whether there was lock down or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Court, on hearing both sides observed that <\/span>no separate annual fee was demanded by the respondent school whereas the fees charged for the previous year and the current year is same and there is no change in the same. Hence, the Court further accepting the argument that monthly salaries for the teaching and non-teaching staff has to be paid, found no irregularity or illegality in the actions of the respondents.<\/span><\/p>\n

In view of the above facts and arguments, the petition was dismissed. <\/span>[Sreelekshmi S. v. State of Kerala, 2020 SCC OnLine Ker 2494<\/b><\/a> , decided on 30-06-2020]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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