At a meeting attended by a delegation of agitating parents under the umbrella organisation Vaalimandal, the school management and District Education Officer Natwarsinh Parmar, it was decided that the school would charge Rs 140 per month for students in the primary section until the end of this academic year. The fees for the next academic year have been fixed at Rs 155.

Both these conditions are acceptable to the management as well as the Mandal, District Education Officer Parmar told Express Newsline after the meeting.

However, sources say the school management bowed to pressure of the agitating parents, because only on Monday Popatbhai Vyas, the school's managing trustee, had said that it was practically impossible for the school to charge anything less than Rs 155 per month from students. The parents insisted that they would pay Rs 140 per month and even stoned the premises after talks failed.

When asked as to why the management had been forced into maintaining the fees at Rs 155, when the district administration had given it the permission to charge fees of Rs 165 per month, the District Education Officer, Parmar, said that it had been brought to the notice of the administration that the school was earlier charging Rs 140 per month while it was authorised to charge only Rs 130.