Indian schools to hike fees by 25%

MUSCAT: The nineteen Indian Schools in the Sultanate have decided to hike their tuition fees by 25 per cent from the new academic level onwards. The new decision, allegedly controversial, has been notified by the Board of Directors governing the schools in the country.

“We have given green signal to the initiative as we were quite convinced of the need of finding income sources for meeting the increasing overhead expenses such as salaries and for funding the infrastructure development in each school”, Tony George Alexander, Chairman, Indian Schools Board of Directors said.

"Those schools like Indian School Darsait (ISD) which have had a hike last year will not be considering the increase this year and the percentage of increase is the discretion of the respective schools depending on their need of additional funds”- he added while clarifying on the new move.

The Indian School Muscat (ISM) where the largest of Indian students are pursuing education from pre-primary till higher secondary will increase their fees by RO 7, thus burdening the parent with an additional RO 84 per annum. On the other hand, the Indian School Al Seeb (ISAS), has decided to keep the tuition fee as it is while doubling the caution deposit collected from each student is doubled from RO 50 to RO 100. But, for a family which has more than one child in the same school, the caution deposit hike is applicable to just one of them but an additional RO 10 should be paid extra.

There is a widespread criticism from the parent community that most of the Indian Schools are operating on higher profits and have substantial sums as reserves. But by supporting the new fee hike, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Tony George Alexander, further elaborated that it was not fair from their side to count on the reserve fund generated by the preceding committees.

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