Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 2 (ANI): Ahead of Eid-Ul-Fitr, the demand for perfumes and attar has increased across the city, said attar shopkeepers from the streets of Charminar.

Srinagar Oct 21 PTI The Jammu and Kashmir Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee FFRC on Thursday directed all private schools in the union territory not to charge any money under refundable or deposit heads as it was in violation of the Supreme Court guidelines It also directed the schools not to pressure the parents to pay the tuition fee in advance Unfortunately some school managements despite it having been ruled by Honble Supreme Court and it being an age-old fact that imparting education is not a businesscommercial activity but is charitable work are using this pious work as camouflage to satisfy the beastly instincts of having only this worlds fortunes chairman of FFRC Justice retd Muzaffar Hussain Attar said in a four-page order The order was issued following several complaints from parents that the schools were charging money under refundable or deposit heads Refundable feedeposit is not legally permissible fee so can neither be demanded nor collected the order said Justice Attar said also directed the schools not to pressure the parents to pay the tuition fee in advance for more than one month The tuition fee is a monthly fee out of which as already stated recurring expenses are being made The school managements cannot in law and on any moral justification pressurise the studentsguardians to pay tuition fee in advance for six months or for whole year Such a demand by some of the school managements being not in consonance with settled norms of charging and collecting tuition fee cannot be permitted to be practised by the school managements the order read The demand of some of the school managements to the parents to clear the pending fee dues failing which academic pursuit of the child will be adversely impacted besides being violative of the judgments of the Supreme Court is also unethical and immoral Justice Attar observed Schools are being set up to impart education to children Non-payment of fee cannot and shall not come in way of such a pursuit of the student he added Justice Attar said the school managements however will be within their rights to seek recovery of the unpaid fees in accordance with law PTI MIJ AQS AQS