A Jaipur man’s viral post on skyrocketing school fees has left thousands of parents worried. In his now viral post, Rishabh Jain said that a good school in the city is charging more 4 lakh as annual fee for class 1 student. The high fees are not an isolated example but are representative of other good schools in the Rajasthan capital, he said.
Rishabh Jain said that he was trying to enroll his daughter in a school when he faced the high cost of education. In your angry post on X IIT BombayThe educated entrepreneur said that good education has become a luxury which the middle class cannot afford.
Post of a person from Jaipur on high school fees
Jaipur-based Jain shared his perspective on India’s affordable education in an X post, which has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. “My daughter will be starting Grade 1 next year, and this is the fee structure of one of the schools we are considering in our city. Note that other good schools also have similar fees,” he wrote while sharing details of the fee structure where parents have to pay Rs 4.27 lakh over the course of a year to educate your child.
iitian Claimed that people are also earning People earning Rs 20 lakh per annum cannot afford such high fees, as most of their salary will go into taxes and other necessities like food and clothing.
“On 20L income you come in the highest 30% + CESS tax bracketDon’t qualify for government schemes, and don’t get any freebies or loan waivers like the rich. in the balance 10 lakh, either you can have food, clothes, pay rent or EMIs, and save something or you can pay school fees for your two children,” said Jain.
parents react
The post divided opinion on social media as many parents agreed with Jain and described the skyrocketing cost of education as “outrageous”. However, others felt that he had exaggerated by saying that people were earning were unable to pay 20 lakhs 4 lakhs as annual school fees.
“Brother, it seems you are exaggerating the numbers! And you deliberately chose the most expensive school in your city to tweet this!” one Get married and settle down in a big city for yourself.”
Another So that includes quality education and sometimes even healthcare.”
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