Quashing the July 16 order directing private schools not to charge any kind of fees during the Covid-19-induced lockdown, the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday asked the government that "if teaching was a noble and charitable cause", why was it not sparing students of engineering and medical colleges.
It ordered the government and private educational institutes to hold talks and reach an amicable solution where every stakeholder's interests were taken care of.
Disposing of four PILs filed by self-financing and private schools associations and federations against the Gujarat government's no fee order, the bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice what can you do with a computer science degree also set aside the government order for returning the fees already collected.
"If teaching is a noble and charitable cause as stated by the government in its GR (government resolution), why the state does not take steps to to waive collection of tuition fees of colleges? Why should the waiver not be for all educational institutes, engineering and medical colleges," the court asked.
It observed that as there was no alternate educational system in place in such a public health crisis, at this juncture, online teaching was the best alternative as education of children should continue for their well-being.
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