A Delhi high court-appointed committee has indicted 58 more private schools for unjustifiably hiking tuition fees by up to 25% in 2009.

After verifying the accounts of 147 schools, the committee in its second report urged the court to direct the managements to refund the increased amount to the parents along with an interest of 9%.

Prominent among the 58 schools asked to refund fees include Delhi Public School, RK Puram. Loreto Convent School, Delhi Cantt and Summer Fields School, Kailash Colony

With the new list, the number of private schools indicted for unjustifiably hiking fees has gone up to 122.

The panel headed by former Rajasthan high court Chief Justice Anil Dev Singh had in its first report submitted in September 2012 hauled up 64 schools for illegally hiking fees after inspecting records of 200 schools and ordered a similar refund.

Apart from the 122 schools indicted for illegal fee hike so far, the panel also found that at least 77 other schools fudged account statements and concealed receipt books making it difficult to ascertain the extent it hiked the fee.

“The greed of substantial number of schools has been uncovered. They capitalized on the government order for unjust enrichment causing great prejudice to students and their parents”, the panel said. The government had allowed the schools to hike the fees to enable them to implement the sixth pay commission report which recommended upward revision of salary of its staff.

The court ordered the inspection of account of all 1,800 private schools in the capital acting on a PIL filed by a parents’ body Delhi Abhibhavak Maha Sangh. Court made it clear that government cannot issue a blanket notification permitting all private schools to hike tuition fees by a certain percentage and it should be based on financial health of each school. 

“Panel found 122 schools out of 348 inspected, that is 50% of them, illegally hiked fees. It vindicates our stand that the fee hike was illegal and schools were indulging in commercial exploitation”, said Sangh’s lawyer Ashok Agarwal.

Slamming the government for not having any control over the functioning of the schools, the panel said “regulatory mechanism has been thrown to the winds by Directorate of Education. Schools are behaving in the manner they like. Right from the stage of granting recognition, the lack of supervisory control of the government’s education department is writ large.”

58 schools indicted in second report submitted by the panel to the Delhi high court on March 15, 2013 Delhi Public School, RK Puram Loreto Convent School, Delhi Cantt Mount St Mary’s School, Delhi Cantt Summer Fields School, Kailash Colony Lovely Buds Public School, Johripur Diamond Public School, Yamuna Vihar Sun Smile Public School, Aman Vihar Vijay Bharati Public School, Badarpur Glory Public School, Sarita Vihar Nav Jeevan Adarsh Public School, Brij Puri BAV Public School, Ghonda RM Convent School, Palam Prakash Model School, Mahavir Enclave Dayanand Model Secondary School, Vivek Vihar Goodley Public School, Shalimar Bagh MN Convent Secondary School, Saroop Nagar Jai Mann Public School, Khera Khurd Jain Bharti Vidyalaya, GT Karnal Road Modern Era Convent, Janak Puri Red Roses Public School, Saket Bhai Joga Singh Public School, Karol Bagh Maharaja Agrasen Model School, Pitam Pura Tagore Modern Public School, Motia Khan Tagore Modern Public School, Shalimar Bagh Gyandeep Vidya Bhawan Sr secondary school, Yamuna Vihar Holy Heart Public School, Mahavir Enclave Swati Modern Public Seconday School, Mundka Kamal Convent Public School, Vikas Puri Shiv Memorial Public School, East Gokalpur Mahavira International School, Tri Nagar St.James School, Yamuna Vihar Vivekanand Convent School, Shahdara Nalanda Public School, Shahdara RN Public School, Rani Bagh Career Public School, Jheel Khuranja Tagore Public School, Jheel Khuranja Luxmi Modern Public School, Karawal Nagar Goodwill Public school, Najafgarh Raghunath Bal Mandir School, Najafgarh Holy Child model school, Najafgarh Sandhya Public School, Chauhan Bangar St.Marks Sr.Secondary school, Harsh Vihar Aravali Public School, Naraina Purnima Public School, Sagarpur BS Public School, Nangloi Doon Public School, Janakpuri National Public School, Jhilmil Colony BM Bharti Model School, Majri New Nalanda Public School, Badarpur Naveen Dabar Secondary Public School, Daulatpur Sri Guru Harkishan Model School, Tagore Garden UD Public School Shivaji Park, Shahdara SM Public School, East Krishna Nagar Kennedy Public School, Raj Nagar, Palam Bholi Ram Public School, Najafgarh 64 schools indicted in the first report submitted on September 1, 2012 Guru Harkishan Public Schools (GHPS for short) GHPS, Hargovind Enclave GHPS, Purana Qila Road GHPS, Shahdara GHPS, Punjabi Bagh GHPS, Hardhian Singh Road, Karol Bagh GHPS, Hemkunt Colony GHPS, Tilak Nagar GHPS, Hari Nagar GHPS, Vasant Vihar GHPS, Nanak Piao GHPS, Fateh Nagar GHPS, Vishnu Garden Karandeep Public School, Bharthal Maharishi Dayanand Public School, New Moti Nagar Bhageerathi Bal Shiksha Sadan, Kartar Nagar Holy Home Public School, Ghonda Bright Star Public School, Mauj Pur Universal Public School Pt.Yaad Ram Secondary Public School, Bhajanpura New Era Convent School, Sonia Vihar Dhruv Deep Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Shiv Vihar Neel Giri Public School, Rama Garden, Karawal Nagar Abhinav Bharti Bhawan School Shivalik Public School, Yamuna Vihar St.Parmanand Public School, Majlis Park Panacea National Public School, Libas Pur Nav Jeevan Adarsh Public Sr.Sec school, Gautam Puri Konark Public School, North Chhajjupur, Shahdra KLV Convent School, Nehru Vihar Guru Nanak Public School, Punjabi Bagh Shiv Mandir Saraswati Bal Vidyalaya, Jai Dev Park Cosmos Public School, Vasundhara Enclave Gyandeep Public School, Shivpuri Amar Jeewan Public School, New Govind Pura Motherhood Public School, New Usmanpur Guru Teg Bahadur Public School, Model Town Chaudhury Chotu Ram Memorial school, Bhagat Singh Park Guru Amar Daas Public School, Tilak Nagar Sunhill Public School, Ranjit Nagar J R Public School, West Sagarpur JBM Public School, Nasirpur Paramount International School, Dwarka Cosmos Sec.School, Badarpur Vidya Vihar Vidyalaya, Naveen Shahdra Sevti Devi Memorial V idya Mandir, Mahavir Enclave Inder Public School, Mandawali Aster Public School, Mayur Vihar Veer Public School, Kapashera Arun Modern Public school, Brijpuri Rama Public School, Najafgarh Jesus and Mary Public School, Dwarka Palam Road Happy Child Model School, Uttam Nagar Puja Convent School, Uttam Nagar West Point Model School, Uttam Nagar G P Public school, Dilshad Colony St.Krishna Bodh Public School, Main Mandoli Road Arwachin Shiksha Sadan Public School, Shanti Nagar Rose Garden Public School, West Ghonda Adarsh Bharti Public School, Brijpuri Shibbon Modern Public School, Vijay Colony Nitya Nand Memorial Public School, Ghonda Shiva Model Public School, Shahbad Daulatpur Prakash Deep Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Panchal Vihar