Parents in Noida protest with 'boot polish' against private schools' fee hike
Zee News
The protest comes in the wake of an Uttar Pradesh government order earlier this month that allowed private schools to hike fee, reported PTI.
Noida: A group of parents in Greater Noida (West) on Sunday (April 17) staged a demonstration to protest the "arbitrary" hike in fees for private schools and took to polishing boots on the roadside in a symbolic gesture to highlight inflation.
Among those sitting on the road for polishing boots were parents who are professional chartered accountants, managers and engineers in private firms as they protested the "arbitrariness" of the schools in increasing the fee despite the Fee Regulation Act.
The protest comes in the wake of an Uttar Pradesh government order earlier this month that allowed private schools to hike fee.
The protestors said the problems of parents have increased a lot due to inflation and the hike in school fee is a double whammy for them.
They held the demonstration from 11 am under the banner of NCR Guardians' Association and Noida Extension Flat Owners Welfare Association (NEFOWA).
