Shree Vardhaman Sthanakwasi Jain Shravak Sangh is the first in the Jain community to get its own postal cover. read more

The contractors said at least Rs 400 crore was due and that they were unable to pay labourers and suppliers for work on drains and roads done for the north municipality more than five years ago. read more

Clerk Abhay Kumar Tiwary has requested the government civil surgeon of Bihar’s Kaimur district, almost 210 kms from capital Patna, for leave to work as a labourer in order to pay his children’s school fees. read more

The school provides tuition free of cost to students, along with books and stationery. What makes Padampani unique is instead of tuition fees, students are asked to pick up waste on their way to school and deposit the collected waste in the dustbins... read more

Observing that the increased fee, as demanded by city schools, was 10 times of what they were spending, the Delhi High Court Tuesday extended its interim order restraining private schools (operating on government land) from revising their fees till May... read more

A bench of Justice S Muralidhar and Justice IS Mehta stayed the order till April 30. The High Court also issued a notice to the school and sought to know their stand. read more

Parents alleged that the school hiked the fee despite the Delhi high court’s order against doing so. The court Monday extended till April 30 the stay on an earlier order that allowed private schools built on public land to raise their fee. read more

Under the land lease agreements of these schools, they cannot increase their fees without prior approval from the DoE. Once a proposal is sent, the DoE will audit their finances and they can be allowed to increase the fee only if they are found to be... read more

In a circular sent by DIOS PK Upadhyay on February 26, the school management was forwarded the complaints made by parents regarding fee hike and asked to send a reply within 15 days. read more

To get an insight on the number of non-school going children, the students of St Andrews College (Bandra), Lala Lajpatrai College (Mahalakshmi) and Wilson College (Charni Road) in May conducted a survey in the slums of Mandale, Mankhurd. read more

Prior to this, the admission procedure had a total of four regular admission rounds. However, the GR has now revised the process with three regular admission rounds and an FCFS round post that. The changes will be applied across all schools in the state... read more

The database comprises laws, policy decisions and specific provisions with respect to school fees to help parents with their complaints. read more

Parents from across India, including a delegation from Maharashtra, will soon meet Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi and submit their demands. read more

The decision comes after chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had issued directions to the schools to roll back their ‘arbitrary’ fee hike after receiving complaints. read more

Governance Deficit: With civil servants failing to do their duty to Chandigarh, the Punjab and Haryana high court is increasingly intervening in matters civic to get things done. read more