The parents, who formed an action committee and disrupted classes for six days, agreed to withdraw the stir when the management offered to reduce the fee by Rs 10.

The parents had taken to the streets from Monday in response to the society's decision to hike the fees from Rs 139 to Rs 205, including Rs 40 to offset the increased expenses called for by implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission recommendations in the primary section.

The management stated that Rs 40 would be returned to each student if the State government did not ask the society to implement the report. It held that the actual hike was only Rs 26 as students would be required to pay Rs 165 each.

The district education officer had described the fee-hike as illegal since the society's application to the State government for the same had been rejected. The society, on the other hand, alleged that the DEO took a long time to decide on the application and, though bound to assign reasons, did not do so.

The stand-off between the parents and the education society, in fact, has become a regular feature in the past few years. The latest stir ended at the table, after a two-and-half hour-long discussion, during which the society claimed that two compromises struck over the past two years had cost it at least Rs 54 lakhs.