Court disallows transfer of funds from schools

NEW DELHI, November 3: The Delhi High Court has put a blanket ban on the transfer, diversion and siphoning of funds from a public school to a society or any other school. The court was acting under the provisions of the Delhi School Education Act.

A division bench, comprising acting Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Justice K.S. Gupta in its recent landmark judgment on fee structure in public schools, categorically said: “The scheme of the Act and the rules is that there should be no diversion of funds and what is collected shall be spent for same purpose barring accidental savings”.

The bench added: “The incidental use of sums collected for some ancillary purposes may be different but not the deliberate levy for one purpose, knowing that for the said purpose the amount required may be much less and knowing that the excess amount is levied and collected and later used for another purpose”.