My maid brought her son whose age would be around 8 years.
I started inquiring about her son.
She told me that she has kept her son with her in laws in their hometown which is a small village some where in Maharasthra.
My immediate question was “Does he goes to school?”
She replied “yes. I have enrolled him in english medium school”.
Then she started explaining me about his school.
School charges an annual fee of Rs25000, Rs1,100 per month for bus transportation, charge for school uniform, food and books are also separate.
If I do approx calculation, she spends Rs 50,000 annually for her school education.
Why I’m concerned.
I did an analogy.
Well we pay her Rs 3000 per month hence annually 36,000. She works in 4 more houses.
Approximately, her annual salary is approx 1.5Lakh.
Her husband works as a clerk in the near by bank. My guess, he took might be earning close to 1.5 lakh.
Hence their combine income is 3lakh.
In this income, they spend 50k on their son education.
Close to 1/4th of their income goes to their son’s education.
Indeed it is commendable effort.
P.S – when I was in school, my school fee was 8k annually and my school was considered as one of the most expensive school.
If a fee of school in village is 25k. As per my estimation, premium school must be charging a bomb?
PrAts!
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