School Education Department–COVID-19-Private Un Aided Schools/ Junior
colleges Fee to be collected from parents/ students fort he Academic year
2020-21-Orders–Issued.
SCHOOL EDUCATION(PS) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms.No. 57 Dated.30-10-2020
Read the following:
1. Notification of AP School Education Regulatory and
monitoring Commission, Ibrahimpatnam Dated: 26.05.2020.2. Directions issued by Hon’ble AP High Court In WP No. 9563 of
2020 Dated:
29.05.2020 and 26.09.2020.3. Procgs.Rc.No.Spl/APSERMC/2020, dt.25-04-2020
of the Chairperson, Andhra Pradesh
School Education Regulatory Monitoring Commission (APSERMC),
A.P Amaravati.
4. Govt.Memo.No.ESE01/129/PS/A1/2020-1, Dt.29-04-2020 of
School Education Department.
5. Procgs.Memo.No.ESE02-17/217/2020-PS1-CSE, Dt.07-05-2020 of C.S.E., A.P6. Lr.Rc.No.386/APSERMC/2020, Dt.18-10-2020 of
Chairperson, Andhra Pradesh School Education Regulatory
Monitoring Commission (APSERMC), A.P, Amaravati.
ORDER:
and Monitoring Commission, proposed to review and
determine the fee structure for the Private
Unaided Schools and Junior Colleges in the state of Andhra Pradesh for
the academic year 2020-21 and issued a notification read
1st above directing the managements of
all the Private Unaided Schools and Junior Colleges in
the state of Andhra Pradesh to submit relevant data in the prescribe
schedules.
2. Aggrieved by the same, KAY VEE ORR Education, Mailavaram
have filed a Writ Petition and the Hon’ble AP High Court
in WP No. 9563 in 2020 stayed the notification for a period of six
weeks initially and extended thereafter.
3. In the prevailing circumstances due to the spread
of the Covid-19 pandemic, the resultant lockdown measures
and economic situation and taking in to
consideration of the plight of the parents who are not in a position to
pay the tuition fees for their children studying in the Private
Un-aided Schools/Junior Colleges, on the recommendation of the Andhra
Pradesh School Education Regulatory Monitoring Commission
(APSERMC), orders were issued in the reference 5th cited, by the
Government directing the Managements of all the Private
Un-aided Recognized Schools/Junior Colleges not to increase any kind of
fees during the academic year 2020-21 and shall collect only tuition fee
on monthly basis until further orders.
4. The Chairperson, Andhra Pradesh School Education
Regulatory and Monitoring Commission (APSERMC)
vide reference 6th cited has
informed that, after review, considering
the plight of the
parents who were economically
incapacitated, the Commission in exercise of powers
under Section 9 of Act 21 of 2019 has recommended to impose
a reduction of 30% of tuition fee for the academic
year 2020-21 which was allowed to be collected
in the references 3rd cited , and permit
the managements of private un-aided educational institutions
to collect 70% of the tuition fee
equivalent to which they collected during the last
academic year and requested to issue necessary instructions
to all concerned in the matter .
5. The matter has been referred to Health Department
and they have informed that World Health
Organization (WHO) has declared the Coronavirus
Disease (COVID-19) epidemic affecting all the regions of the World as
pandemic.
6. To contain and control COVID-19, Government of
India has declared Lockdown-1 from 25th March
to 14th April’2020, Lockdown-2
from 15th April to 3rd May’2020,
Lockdown-3 from 4th May to 17th May’2020 and
Lockdown-4 from 18th May to 31st May’2020, In total
68 days of Lock down are implemented in accordance with directives
issued by Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The Government
of India slowly started Unlocking-1 from 1st June to 30th
June’2020, Unlocking-2 from 1st July to 31st July’2020,
Unlocking-3 from 1st August to 31st
August’2020, Unlocking-4 from 1st September to
30th September’2020 and Unlocking-5 from 1st
October onwards. Due to these lockdowns and slow unlocking all the
economic activities have come to a complete closure and general
public more so middle class and below have
faced lot of hardships and financial problems due to abrupt and
unprecedented stoppage of economic activities.
7. The state of Andhra Pradesh is also badly affected due to pandemic of
COVID-19, in all regions of the state. As many as 9,074
containment zones are formed in the state where 1.10 Crore
population live. Due to containment measures in these clusters there is
a complete closure of this cluster which has not only
restricted the movement of the citizens but
has also led to complete
closure of all economic activities in
these containment clusters, which further have
deepened the financial crisis already existing due to
lockdowns.
8. In order to examine the matter further from
the point of the view school/ college managements,
Government have called for the remarks of
Director, School Education (DSE) and Commissioner, Intermediate
Education (CIE). The DSE and CIE while requesting for implementing
the recommendation of the
Chairperson, AP School
Education Regulatory and Monitoring Commission, informed
that the proposed reduction in the fees of the Private
Unaided Recognized Schools/Junior Colleges is required and it
may not affect the managements substantially as the
total operational and maintenance costs, which the
Private Un-aided Schools/Junior Colleges may incur for regular
studies during normal days, have been definitely reduced due to
the following reasons:
a) that all the educational institutions in the state were closed
with effect from 22-3-2010 and that the
institutions have not been
reopened till now in the academic year
i.e., 2020-21 and that the daily operational and
maintenance costs for the school have substantially reduced,
b)that government have tentatively
decided to reopen the educational
institutions from 2nd November, 2020 and for a period
of almost five months the schools did not function as during
normal times and, to that extent the normal operation
costs for the school have substantially reduced,
c) that the institutions have been
directed to implement alternative academic
calendar and to encourage online teaching
as per the PRAGYATA guidelines issued by Government of
India and as such the institutions would
not have incurred substantial
expenditure on instruction and maintenance all
these days, and
d) that for the remaining months also the
School Education department is proposing a reduction in the
load of the syllabus and as such the expenditure on
instructional hours would also come down.
e) that all co-curricular and extra-curricular activities in
the schools have not been held all these months, and
also that the operational and maintenance costs of school
buses would have been bare minimal during these months.
9. Government after careful examination of the matter and on
the recommendations of the Chairperson, Andhra Pradesh School Education
Regulatory Monitoring Commission (APSERMC) and
also in consultation with the
Health, Medical and Family
Welfare Department, and also the remarks offered by Director of School
Education, Commissioner of Intermediate Education and
Under section 7 of the Andhra
Pradesh Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and
Prohibition of Capitation Fee) ACT, 1983 (ACT 5 of 1983),
hereby decided to impose a reduction
of 30% of the tuition fees for the
academic year 2020-21 which was allowed to be
collected by the Managements of the Private Un-aided Educational
Institutions and shall collect 70% of the tuition fees
from parents equivalent to which they collected during the last academic year,
i.e., 2019-20.
10. It is further ordered that the present arrangement is
necessitated and implemented in view of the grave pandemic on account of
COVID-19 and shall not be construed as an affirmation
of the fee structure being
collected by the respective institutions. The
appropriate fee structure relevant for the full academic year
and further particulars shall abide by
the decision of the Commission and
further orders of the Hon’ble High Court of Andhra Pradesh
in WP No 9563/2020.
11. The Special Commissioner of Intermediate Education and
the Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh shall take
further necessary action accordingly.
