Chandigarh, April 11 -- Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday accused the state government of allowing private schools to function in an "arbitrary" manner.

In a statement, the former CM said many complaints are coming from parents across the state that the private school managements were collecting various types of illegal fee from them. "Parents are also being charged exorbitant prices for books. The school management puts pressure on parents to buy books only from selected shops and shopkeepers are charging up to six times more rate from the parents," Hooda alleged.

Chief minister Nayab Singh Saini had on Wednesday said that students at private schools were free to purchase books from any bookshop and were n...