Calcutta High Court had in February ordered guardians to pay full fees from March and 80 per cent of the fees for the period between April 2020 and February 2022 by March 25
On a deserted school campus, the clatter of the keyboards and the ringing of phones is constant in one room.
Welcome to the accounts office, the most busy place in the school in the last few months.
The mailbox is full, the phone calls are incessant and the personnel in the school accounts office are buried in calculations.
One template that could be followed for all students is no longer effective and the accounts offices across schools are doing calculations specific to individual requests.
Questions from parents range from how much they have to pay if they opt for waiver in the last two quarters, or how much they need to pay if they want the fees adjusted for the previous months where they have paid 100 per cent, or how much they have to pay if they opt for instalments.