Dhaka, April 22 -- Many may not visit the school to pay the fees amid the lockdown and stay-at-home order, the institution figured. And so it has launched a system to take payments through mobile financial services like bKash, Nagad and Rocket.

Some parents expressed anger over the school's attitude of collecting fees by any means amid the pandemic.

Its Principal Hamida Ali says they have no other ways but to collect the fees because none of the teachers get any facility from the government, such as Monthly Pay Order or MPO.

The institution with branches at Uttara, Banani, Mirpur, Malibagh and Baridhara has more than 300 teachers for 12,500 students.

A parent of a student at the Baridhara branch, on condition of anonymity, said the in...