Explanation:

The Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department is considering a proposal allowing private schools to hike their annual fee by six percent every year.

The move comes in the wake of the demand of private schools to allow an increase in the annual fee of the schools to enable them to meet the school expenses besides giving an annual hike to the salary of the school staff as well.

The School Fee Fixation Committee (SFFC) in January 2019 had allowed private schools to hike the tuition fee by six percent.

In the order, the SFFC had said that the six percent hike was to be given to the fee structure which was in place in August 2018.

However, the order was revoked by the J&K government in February 2021 amid massive complaints against the private schools for arbitrary hikes in the fees.

For the last two years, the private school body and the School Education Department are at loggerheads over the functioning of the private educational institutions.