fees parents books vendor We have not received any legal notice as of now. Even before this academic year, it has been an usual practice for parents to buy books and stationery from the school Pradnya Gokhale, principal, Mansukhbhai Kothari National School Taking its fight against schooland enforcement of rules over purchase of books, at least 23from Mansukhbhai Kothari National School, Kondhwa, have sent a legal notice to the school, claiming that the school is over-charging and forcing them to buyfrom theappointed by the school.The school, however, follows Central Board Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum, which states that schools cannot force parents to buy books from specific vendors and should issue the widely available books published by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).Challenging that the same rule is not being followed by the school, parents have come together and slapped the school with a legal notice. A guardian of a Class I student said, "The school has asked us to pay a term fee of Rs 16,500 and given a deadline of April 3 to purchase books from the school. The school has increased the term fee without prior intimation, which compelled us to send them a legal notice."Wajid Khan Bidkar, advocate for the parents, who sent the notice, said, "The legitimate fee that the school should have charged is Rs 10,000, but parents are being forced to pay a higher sum and asked to buy books and school kits from the school only through cash payment. This is unfair. Parents can pay through any mode such as cheque, DD and online transfer."He added, "The school is using books that are not published by NCERT and compelling parents to buy those from the school alone."The legal notice also mentions that the school is charging Rs 3,000 extra from parents for music classes and compelling them to pay fees for extra-curricular activities, which were never a practice in the school. It also mentions that parents tried to submit the legal notice to the school, but the school refused to accept it; therefore the same was submitted through post .Pradnya Gokhale, principal of Mansukhbhai Kothari National School, said, "We had not increased any term fee for last two years and neither have we forced parents to buy books and kits from a particular vendor. It would be difficult for parents to source the books from various vendors; therefore we merely suggested them to buy the materials from a particular vendor. The same books are available in the market as well. To maintain uniformity, we have the school's logo printed on the notebooks."She added, "We have not received any legal notice as of now. Even before this academic year, it has been an usual practice for parents to buy books and stationery from the school. Also, regarding music class, it is again not a compulsion but a choice. For other students, we have arrangements for various other extra-curricular activities. The school management is also speaking to parents and taking cognisance of their complaints."

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