ahmedabad parents who have been hit financially due to the covid19 pandemic in the last three months may finally have some consolationwhile their demand to the state government for granting financial relief remains pending selffinanced schools have come forward to offer some respite to worried parentsthe gujarat state selffinance school management association which has a representation of 5500 schools has written to all its members to offer fee waivers to parents who have either lost jobs got salary cuts or suffered losses in business due to financial covid19 pandemic induced economic meltdownwe have asked the schools to take a written application from parents who have been financially hit due to coronavirus pandemic giving out their financial details seeking respite in school fees said bharat gajipura president of the associationthe school management will then call such parents and then it will be mutually decided on the payment of school tuition fees for the 202021 academic yearthe school trustees will decide on a case to case basis whether to give a threemonth grace period in fee payment or give 1025 concession in fee said gajipurahe said that during such testing times the schools and the parents have to sit across the table and work out a solution to this problemarchit bhatt president of ahmedabad schools progressive management association said they have also decided to offer an extended timeline for payment of fees more than 50 parents are yet to pay fees for the month of june if this scenario is prolonged it will adversely impact teachers salariesschools may take fee in installmentsmp chandra management trustee at asia school said they have intimated parents about reaching out to the school for feerelated concerns we are open to considering payment of fees in instalments said chandra manan choksi a trustee at udgam school said about 70 parents have paid school fees and as many as 300 of them have paid fees for the full academic yearour association is ready to extend all the support we can to the parents reeling under the financial crunch triggered by covidpandemic the finer details can be mutually agreed upon by parents and the school said choksi a former president of ahmedabad schools project management associationrecently a school in the walled city area of ahmedabad j p high school announced full waiver in monthly school fees for class 1 to class 8 students from april 20 to october 20