Hyderabad, July 3^rd: According to the report submitted by the five member committee appointed by the state government to regulate fee structure on private schools, no private school in the state should collect more that Rs 24,000 per annum for students up to Class V and Rs 30,000 per annum for students from Class VI to X. In the report the committee suggested that the fee structure should be revised only once in three years, schools should also give official fee receipt.

Schools will have to do away with names such as ‘Concept Schools’, ‘techno schools’ etc. They should be named as primary, upper primary, high schools and public schools. If the school management wants to hike the fee, it should have to get the prior permission from the fee regulation authority that will be established at the district level with collector, joint collector, DEO and other officials as members.

The committee suggested that there should be a governing council in every school that includes representatives from parents, teachers and management. A Parent Teacher Association should be set up and it should be consulted on the fee hike. The governing council should approach the fee regulatory authority by September and a decision will be taken by the authority by December every year.

The committee said that the admission application cost should be less than Rs 100 and schools should not collect a caution deposit if more than Rs 5,000 and it has to be refundable.