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Friday, October 10, 2008

Schools seek huge hike in tuition fee

Teachers of Delhi's private schools can look forward to a big raise in line with a recommendation of the Sixth Central Pay Commission. Parents are dreading it, fearing they will be made to foot the bill.

Representatives of the National Progressive Schools' conference, an umbrella body of 100 private schools from Delhi, met Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday to seek government approval.

They were told a committee would be set up to look into this demand and it will have a month to submit its report. The pay commission has recommended a 100 per cent raise in teachers' salaries.

"The private schools will meet the Delhi education director on October 16," said Jyoti Bose, principal Springdales (Dhaula Kuan) and a member of the schools' conference.

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Government swallows bitter

It was never going to be easy A 10 per cent hike in petrol and diesel prices would hurt, and there was no way to sweeten it. It's a trade off between the country's long-term economic interests and the hit consumers take today.

That's the message Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to drive home as his inflation-weary government on Wednesday announced the steepest-ever increases (in absolute terms) in government-administered fuel prices.

The hike - Rs 3 per litre of diesel, Rs 5 per litre of petrol and Rs 50 per LPG cylinder - was unavoidable, and necessary to keep the country's oil marketing companies from going bank rupt. But coming as it does at a time when the nation is battling a sharp spike in inflation, the decision triggered widespread resentment among consumers across the country They will have to shell out more for travelling to work, running the kitchen and buying everything that needs a transport.

The Left parties promptly slammed the hike as "steep" and announced plans for a countrywide agitation for a week starting Thursday The main opposition party, the BJP, called it "economic terror".

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