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Delhi Public School Parents Association of Kanpur franchise in the name of Kanpur Education Society run Kalyanpur Branch CBSE Affiliation No.2130724 and Shyam Bihari Mishra Memorial Charitable Trust run CBSE Affiliation No.2130724 Azad nagar Branch.
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Parents have now turned towards technology to protest against the fee hike by private schools. Distressed over the government inaction in the first kind of its initiative in the city or even in the state (as claimed by one who created it), the blog carries information associated with the fee hike. Collection of all the news items featuring the protests and demonstrations of the parents forms part of blog. Created a month back, the blog has been flooded with the reactions of the parents, who have been exploited by the schools in the name of fees and the angst against government inaction.
"It's recession and every one is getting affected by it in some form or other. Schools have added to the woes of the middle class by exorbitantly increasing the fees. And they have kept doing this every year in the garb of building fund besides normal hike in the fee structure," reads a comment of a parent on the blog.
"Despite the `mindless' increase in school fees, the government has maintained a silence. Even as schools question the affordability of the parents and ask us to shift our wards to government schools, this very statement creates many questions," said Sanjeev Verma, who has created the blog.
He said, "Though there would be audits to schools' books of account, does any one in the government look into the details and number of times the hikes are carried out during the year and also in addition to school fees how much other additional expenses/charges are levied?"
The blog, he says, invites all the parents of the city who feel the pinch of the fee hike and mark protest through comments and reviews, forcing the government to do something about it. It enables the parents to go through any of the government order or the Court order passed regard the fee hike.
Additionally, there is a also a section that gives details about the increase in fees of the schools and their notices sent to the parents. "The blog has proved to be a huge success, as dozens of comments get added to it daily, providing solace to the parents that they aren't alone in this campaign," says Honey Rastogi, a regular visitor of the blog.
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