In Manipur, the State Education Department has ordered all private and aided schools in the State not to collect fees from students for the months of April to July of the present academic session considering the closure of schools due to COVID-19.<br />''<br />''An order issued by the Department also directed these schools not to hike admission fees for the academic session 2020-21 while collecting the same. Monthly school fees, including fees under any nomenclature up to March may be collected without hiking the amount. Fee if already collected for these months by the schools shall be adjusted with subsequent months in future, it said.<br />''<br />''Regarding the salary of teaching and non-teaching staff of these schools, the order instructed payment of 50 percent of salaries for staff with student enrollment of 700 and below while full payment for the schools with student enrolment of more than 700 students.<br />''State Education Minister Th. Radheshyam convened a press conference this evening and appealed to all schools and guardians to follow the government order regarding the fee structure.<br />''<br />''The Minister said that practices of luring students by giving freebies including laptops, tablets and other monetary benefits by schools is to be condemned.<br />''<br />