Irked by the school's decision to raise the fees by 42%, increasing the amount from Rs 11,400 annually to up to Rs 17,100 annually, the guardians of the students gathered outside the institute and started hunger strike. Finally, the school relented to increase the fees by 25% and not 42%.
Instead of raising the fees by 42%, the management has agreed to increase it by 25% only.
The battle between the parents and school management of Arya Gurukul at Kalyan ended on Friday afternoon after parents organised hunger strike since morning outside school which led both the parties to compromise over the fee hike. The school management agreed to reduce fee hike from 42 percentage to 25 percentage.After the school increased the fees from Rs 11,400 annually to up to Rs 17,100 ,
On Friday the parents of students of Arya Gurukul in Kalyan had organised hunger strike outside school to protest against the school's fee hike. Parents alleged that the school administration raised fees by 42 percentage that was Rs 11,400 last years and it was increased up to Rs 17,100.
After the demonstration began, The school authorities had to call in the police and the Quick Response Team , both of which deployed a large number of personnel at the site to ensure that the situation did not go out of control. A police pick-up vane was also stationed near the institute. During the course of the day, five representatives of the parents, along with local MLA Ganpat Gaikwad, met the management and after four hours of discussion, both the sides agreed that the rise should be kept at 25%.
A sizeable police bandobast including a police pick-up van and a quick response team was in place to ensure that the situation did not go out of control during protest.
One of the parents, J Nambiyar, told TOI, "The school decided to increase the fee in the middle of the year and the officials refused to talk to us." They had even started harassing students." over the issue."
Justifying the fee hike, school trustee Bharat Malik said, "For an unaided school, fees are the only source of income. We have to pay our teachers in the scale recommended by the Sixth Pay Commission. Moreover, maintaining the high standard, we provide all the additional facilities to students. So we were bound to hike the fees. For this year, it has been raised by 25%."
The next session's amount will be decided later."
Malik further said, "We have to pay our teachers as per the sixth pay commission this all increased our expense that is why we have agreed to only 25 percentage fee hike for this year while for the next year we will decide later"
Before organizing the protest parents had also approached the local Kolsewadi police but they had not taken any action against the schools management resulting parents had called hunger strike.
On Friday it was third agitation called by the parents against the fee hike by the school management after school came in to existence in Kalyan east area.
Parents alleged that, Arya Gurukul is the single CBSE school is situated in the Kalyan east area while in Kalyan west there are many CBSE schools, but due to long distance parents give preference to Arya Gurukul and that is why taking advantages of this school management every years increased their fee.
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