Parents’ association bats for affordable health insurance for school children

INDORE: Schools must be made mediators in providing health insurance for children at minimum rates, suggested Indore Parents Association to MP Shankar Lalwani on Saturday.

The association also suggested that online school system should also be given affiliation with help of Central government so that students get world-class education without burning a hole in pocket of parents.

As many as 100 parents of Indore district who have their children studying in various schools participated in the meeting via video conferencing and kept forth as many as 15 different issues related to school. “At the moment not all kids have any health insurance and most of the parents are considering now. Schools as mediators would be extremely beneficial. Moreover, online education will be the new thing hence forth,” co-founder of parents association, Jitendra Parwani said.

The organization and parents kept issues such as fee and online education system, he added. Lalwani appreciated the fee suggestions and agreed to take up most of the issues with concerned authorities. The association also urged that school should give a concession of 50 % on tuition fee and the schools shouldn’t bother parents to pay the fee.

Pointing towards present situation due to the pandemic, parents said that all the fee except tuition fee should be exempted as several middle class and below middle class people have been facing financial constraints. As several families are facing money crunch, the burden of fee is an additional issue. As the date to pay the fee of March-May is coming near and it would be extremely difficult for parents to be able to pay the fee. This is an important issue, said president of the association, Anurodh Jain.

Source: The Times of India