Parents take up protests again as schools reopen

The parents had assembled at the office of the Commissioner of Child Welfare. “We have submitted our letter to the authority who said it will be forwarded to the department concerned in Mumbai. We are hoping for some action,” said Rosary Parents Association’s vice-president Syed Shaher Ali.

Meanwhile,parents of the PCMC area came together to form an association. “Our association will cater to the problems of all schools coming under the PCMC,be it the state board,ICSE or CBSE. We aim to assemble the parents and discuss issues related to fee hikes or any other problems being faced by them. In our first meeting held recently,we tried to talk to parents about the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE),” said Ikhlas Sayyad,a parent of SNBT School,Pimpri.

Anil Mahajan,member of the Sinhgad Parent’s Association said,“We will be presenting our demands to some school representative who can take some decision. We have been asking the school to withdraw its decision to hike fees for six months,but nothing happened. Instead of asking for the entire fee at one go,we want the school to take it in installments. We will place these in front of the school authorities on Friday.”