Panel fixes fee structure for school, Intermediate students in A.P.
The Hindu
It notified three different categories of fee structure for students from nursery to 10th Standard and Intermediate enrolled in private unaided institutions in gram panchayats, municipalities, and municipal corporations.
The Andhra Pradesh School Education Regulatory and Monitoring Commission has notified three different categories of fee structure for students from nursery to 10th Standard and Intermediate enrolled in private unaided institutions in gram panchayats, municipalities, and municipal corporations for the academic years 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24. Corporate/unaided tutorial colleges, which impart additional coaching for entrance examinations and collect even up to ₹5 lakh per annum, have been disallowed from collecting this kind of additional fees irrespective of their location of operation — city, town or panchayat. Through the Government Orders MS No.53 and No. 54, the Commission has specified that the fees included tuition fees, prospectus and registration fees, admission fees, examination fees, laboratory fees, sports fees, computer laboratory fees, library fees, extracurricular activities fees, student welfare fund, student health care scheme, study tour, alumni and any other similar fees related to academics. In addition to the above academic fees, a student will be required to pay transportation charges, hostel charges (boarding and lodging charges) if he/she opts for those services.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.