ahmedabad after the implementation of the gujarat selffinanced schools regulation of fees bill 2017 fees of several schools are likely to be reduced education experts say the direct impact of the reduction is likely to be on the quality of education as schools budgets may shrink the experts suggested that schools will first start cutting extracurricular activities and some facilities cutting down the number of teachers is also another possibility private schools are evaluating ways to maintain quality in the face of fee caps our schools approach to maintain quality is holistic and if fees are reduced it will be difficult to retain current procedures said kamal mangal trustee anand niketan school group schools are operated through private loans and the reduction in fees will make it all the more difficult to manage expenditureschools feel they will have to cut down on extracurricular activities and activitybased learning moreover school authorities say expenditure will only increase with the implementation of the seventh pay commission and the need to maintain the mandated studentteacher ratio if education quality diminishes schools will be forced to reduce fees further as results would be poormanan choksi trustee udgam school said the key requirements of quality education are wellqualified teachers emphasis on cocurricular and sports activities choksi said cbse stipulates a studentteacher ratio of 15 we are maintaining a 25 ratio choksi said the speaker system and digital media for teaching are among the schools amenities however everything has a cost and if our budgets are limited we may have to cut down on themsome schools believe that there is no connection between fees and quality of education vatsal vaishnav director nirma school said education is not a commercial product what is being sown is what will be reaped the reduction of fees is not likely to affect the quality of education at all