Mumbai: Sudhir Ahir lost his job during a pandemic last year.
Unable to pay the fees for private schools, he shifted the men’s men and nine-year-old daughters to the city school.
Moving from a private school to Civic One seemed painful at first.
Now he all smiles.
With students rejected online classes for non-payment fees, parents faced with work losses make their children leave private schools and join civilian schools and assisted where free education.
10 new CBSE schools were introduced by BMC this year, and one ICSE, was flooded with the application.
The schools spread in Mumbai have 40 seats each from nurseries to class VI.
“Until 2019, I used to write a check for a fee.
Only when the pandemic attacked that I realized the cost of my child was Rs 3,100 per month,” Aheire said, who was told about losing his job.
He tried to find time from school for payment of fees.
While it did not happen, his son, in class VIII, was not allowed online access.
“He was reluctant to go to the city school.
But at least a dozen his classmates also joined,” he said.
BMC Education Officer Raju Tadvi said the non-state council schools run by the municipality were hit among parents.
He said in a hurry for school was the result of a financial crisis induced by a pandemic.
The Civic CBSE Principal said this year they have middle class parents who are looking for their children.
Nitin Dalvi, one of the 28 applicants who moved Bombay HC against two private schools for refusing to access their children online for not paying fees, moving their sons to civil schools.
After court intervention, school allows 28 students online access from Friday.