Hyderabad: A section of parents took a vow to vote against the TRS government in the 2019 elections if it failed to stop the “fee loot” by private schools. Ms Saritha from LB Nagar wrote on a post-card that parents will stop voting for the ruling part if it did not stop the private schools from fleecing parents.
Another parent, Mr Mohammed Sharif from Shalibanda, vented his ire in Hyderabadi slang: “KG to PG free mein padhaate bolke, school feesan itni badhaana. Yeich hai Bangaru Telangana? (After promising free KG to PG, why has school fee gone up so much? Is this Bangaru Telangana?),” he wrote on a postcard. Over 2,000 such post-cards hand written by parents from across the city were posted to Chief Minister’s address on Sunday.
Hyderabad Schools Parents Association took up this campaign few months ago and it received requests written by parents written in Telugu, English, Hindi and even in Urdu. Scores of parents and children assembled at General Post Office, Abids, to mail the post-cards to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday.
“We started a missed call campaign to stop fee hike and recieved more than 2 lakh calls. But we could not get an audience with CM to brief him about the issue. We are hoping that CM will give us appointment and hear about our grievances after he receives postcards directly at his doorstep,” Ramanjeet Singh of HSPA said. “When states like Gujarat, UP and Punjab are regulating school fees, one fails to understand why Telangana is reluctant to do the same,” asked a parent.
To ensure Prime Minister Narendra Modi took note of parents concerns, HSPA mailed a few postcards to him. The slogan used by parents read “School fee loot rokne ko — Ek postcard CM ko, Ek postcard PM ko (To stop school fee loot, one postcard for CM and one for PM.
