Parents Willing To Relocate For Their Kids’ Education

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Parents Willing To Relocate For Their Kids’ Education

A recent analysis by ASSOCHAM (Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India) unveiled the anxiety of the parents in getting their children studied in reputed schools.About 32 % of Delhi-NCR parents prefer to relocate their homes near the most reputed schools for getting admissions for their kids says the analysis.

New Delhi: According to it, more than 21% of this Delhi-NCR parents have already shifted to the Rohini, VasantKunj, Rajendra Nagar and Dwarka where they can find their popular schools for their kids.

Most of the parents in the Delhi-NCR region are looking or taking initiatives for moving their residences to the areas that has a number of good schools. The secretary general of ASSOCHAM, DS Rawat has said that the admissions for the kids have become a great mission of parents who are even willing to spend a large amount of money in order to get a seat in their preferred schools.

Just to get the admission, the parents even tend to choose in for the management quota seats which cost approximately Rs.1.5 lakh. For this money, they go to an extent of getting personal loan. Some of the people who took the survey told that they opt in for such personal loans while they already are paying for a home loan making their lives harder.

A 65% of these parents stated that there are also areas without any popular schools at a minimum distance of three kilometres radius. The parents from these areas think that they should be allowed to apply in these schools where they can drop and pick up kids on their own responsibility.

The ASSOCHAM analysis says that there are about 3,000 Delhi public schools that sell their prospectus’ that contain the details about their schools and the admission processes for a cost of Rs.500 to Rs.800. Rawat has also said that the increasing cost for admission processes in the private schools has affected even the well settled families. He added that education is being run like a private owned business enterprise these days.