Click to play videoNew Delhi: Twenty-one-year-old Anyesha dreams of becoming a bureaucrat someday. But before she can take on the civil services, she's busy completing her masters in history at the Calcutta university.
The degree costs her Rs 30 a month in tuition fees, a minuscule portion of the money her father ends up spending on her education every year.
"In a month, I spend around Rs 2,500 to 3,000 on xeroxes, books and other stuff. I still haven't started buying books because I am waiting for the book fair. I just think that there I will get some discount because it gets really expensive at times," says Anyesha.
Anshuman Chowdhury is a HR manager with a public sector company and is eligible for an tax relief on tuition fees under 80 C of the income tax act.
But with the tuition component itself a mere fraction of his daughter's entire education, it's a benefit he hasn't been availing.
"I further like to have rebates on things like tuition fees. Apart from university fees, also on books that she wants to buy for preparations for civil services. Of course I do believe it should be incorporated in the tax law," says Chowdhury.
It's often that the add-on costs of educational expenses pinch the parents, many of whom eventually turn to expensive personal loans to fund their child's future. "May I have the opportunity to request the Finance Minister to put a proposal of to get some relief," says Chowdhury.
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