Private School Assn Demands Roll Back of Tax on School Buses

KOCHI:
All India Private Schools’ and Children’s Welfare Association (AIPSCWA) urged Chief Minister to roll back the decision to hike tax on unaided school buses.

Association president Anu Chacko and general secretary M Abdul Nazar said that private schools all over Kerala have come for a rude shock with the announcement made by Finance Minister Thomas Isaac in the budget to increase teh tax charged on buses belonging to unaided schools. Natural calamities such as the recent unprecedented floods have already left the unaided sector in doldrums and it will be quite unfair to hike tax.

The executive meeting of the Association demanded to urgently withdraw the proposed tax. They also warned of agitation if a favourable decision is not taken. Association chairman N Ramachandran Nair and State office-bearers Moses D’Cruz and M Jouhar attended.