NCDRC pulls up school for not issuing transfer certificate to student; imposes Rs 50k fine

Apex consumer commission NCDRC has come down heavily on Doon Valley International Public School, Himachal Pradesh, for not issuing transfer certificate on time to a class IX student who lost an academic year due to the delay, and directed it to pay Rs 50,000 to her.

A National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) bench, headed by Presiding member S M Kantikar, upheld the decision of the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC) to impose Rs 50,000 cost on the school.

Ravleen Kaur, a class IX student, had approached the school in 2005 for a transfer certificate which was not granted to her on time and the school said that she poor at studies.

The panel noted that the school's contention on Kaur's academic performance had no relation with issuing a factually correct school leaving certificate and that it was nobody's case to show her as a "good student" in the transfer certificate.

It said the school could have acted with responsibility at least upon filing of ...