Private Schools as Profit Hubs – Who Will Break This Cartel?

By C Subrahmanyam
Hyderabad | September 18, 2025

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy thunders that education is the only weapon left to kill poverty. True.

But here lies the hard truth: private schools have turned this sacred weapon into a money-minting machine. What should have been the ladder for the poor is now a golden staircase only the rich can climb.

Every year, lakhs of students pass out — engineers by the thousands, graduates in heaps — yet jobs remain a mirage. The CM admits it openly: education standards have collapsed. Degrees are plenty, employability is near zero. Then who is accountable?

The Fee Mafia and the Silent State

Look around any city or town: private and international schools are squeezing parents dry.

Fancy air-conditioned classrooms, imported furniture, digital boards — while the bill runs into lakhs every year.
Parents mortgage their peace, borrow at interest, just to buy an admission form.

Education has become the new real estate.

Here is the hard demand: Put a ceiling on fees! If telecom tariffs can be regulated, why not school fees?

Education is not a private estate — it is a public responsibility.

One Nation, One Exam Calendar

Why should private schools run their own calendars, exams, and rules, as if they are mini-republics?

The state must mandate:

One exam calendar for all
One timetable for all

Enough of double standards.

Put the People on the Boards

If private schools run as commercial hubs, let them be accountable.

Put parent representatives and government nominees on every school board.
No more closed-door empire building.

If education is for the people, then the people must sit at the table.

CM’s Big Talk, Big Deadline – Will It Deliver?

The CM wants a policy till 2047, a vision that guides Telangana for a century ahead. Noble words.

But here is the sting: visions don’t work if private mafias continue to dictate the education market.

Unless fee caps, vigilance, and accountability are enforced, all these sub-committees will only produce glossy reports.

Theatrical Truth

If poverty is the disease and education is the medicine, then private schools are the pharmacists selling lifesaving drugs at black-market rates.

The government must decide — will it remain a spectator or become the surgeon who cuts out the cancer?

Key Takeaways

“Degrees are plenty, jobs are zero. What is the use of producing lakhs of graduates when even 10% don’t get employed?”
“Private schools have become profit hubs, not temples of learning.”
“If telecom tariffs can be regulated, why not school fees?”
“One exam calendar for all schools — no more private empires dictating their own rules.”
“Parents are not ATMs. Put them on school boards. Let the people sit at the table.”
“Visions till 2047 are good, but without fee caps and vigilance, they remain paper dreams.”

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