Private schools start admission process, hike fee

The mysuru admission season for the new academic year started in the city’s private unaided schools with the state education department mandating that children must be aged six for admission to class 1 from the academic year 202526. Only those students who have completed four years as on june 1 are being admitted to lkg. Meanwhile, an average 5 to 10 fee revision has been proposed by the schools citing inflation and increase in salary perks and other expenditures according to school heads. Registration of prospective students has started starting from january 1 for a change. Many schools are taking up admission of siblings at first and other children in the later stages all these years, sibling admission was part of the regular admission process however this year the admission process started with sibling admission to ensure that parents do not face any problems said school heads. r manjunath srivatsa joint secretary, the cbse icse state board private school management association cispmam said that many parents are confused about the new age criteria fixed by the state government, causing a problem now. He said with no fee revision for the last three years due to the pandemic many of the schools have proposed fee revision in the new academic year around 10 fee revision is being made for the new academic