The Bombay High Court today directed that representatives of some petitioner-parents visit the new premises offered by the P G Garodia Trust to run their pre-primary and KG classes, within a week. The petitioners will be accompanied by a court commissioner and a person nominated by the local BMC school inspector. The directions came after the petitioners, Leena Vira and others, moved a notice of motion against the P G Garodia Trust for violating the earlier high court orders on the case.

The petitioners, who earlier numbered around 180, had moved the court when the trust which ran the First Step Nursery in Garodia Nagar, started demanding donations of around Rs 13,000 from each parent to promote their wards to the next class. While court had in an interim relief restricted the respondents from striking the names of the children off the rolls, the respondents had changed the name of the school and claimed it was being run by a different trust.

The court in anearlier order held that the respondents were unable to prove that the school was being run by a different trust and had directed them to take back the children at the same school premises or any other alternative premises. The state government was also told to inspect the school's fee structure.

While the state's inquiry report is still awaited, parents moved a notice of motion today claiming that while the Garodia Nagar premises had an earlier capacity of 503 students for the nursery classes, it today has only 303 students and demanded that the trust be directed to accommodate their children in the same premises. They said the trust had opened school in a bungalow at Rajawadi Nagar, which the the secretary of the housing society had opposed and which was very far from their residences. The other new premises, at a chawl at Rajawadi Nagar, was also unacceptable to them.

In fact, the court commissioner's report too suggested that there was space in the Garodia Nagar school premises for the rest of thestudents. At the court today, advocate for the petitioners, M M Vashi, claimed that the school was victimising the children since the parents had filed the petition. He claimed that around 47 of the previous petitioners, who had unconditionally apologised for filing the petition, had their children taken back and had obtained admission in the original premises.

However, advocate for the respondents, Soli Doctor, claimed that there was no space in the Garodia Nagar premises for any more students. He offered that another plot of land, plot no 205 at Garodia Nagar, was to be used as the new site for the rest of the students. He then offered that the new school premises, which till now were being used as a marraige hall, could be inspected by representatives of the petitioners.

The inspection of the school will take place next Wednesday. The matter will come up for hearing on October 12.

IDBI report on Matulya Mills

The Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), one of the monitoring agencies forBIFR companies which had been directed by the Bombay High Court to file a report on the financial status of Matulya Mills, especially on the monies that accrued from the sale of some of its property and its usage, today submitted its report to the court. The matter will come up for further hearing on Friday.

The court had in July directed the IDBI to file an audit report on the mill's finances. The directions came in on petition filed by the Girni Kamagar Sangharsh Samiti, which had claimed that the earlier land development plan executed by the mill had brought in crores of money which was not being used for the mill's development and had in fact ``disappeared''.