new delhi the directorate of education ordered ahlcon public school mayur vihar not to increase fees for the 201617 session and to refund any amount already charged doe also asked the school to inform parents and publicise its refusal to allow the school to hike the fees through its websitea senior official from ahlcon confirming the receipt of the order said in april we increased the fees by 10 as we have done for years the department issued an advertisement saying we cant increase without approval and if we do we must file for approval we filed in july and received no response till the parents complaineddoes original order argued against the hike citing the schools net surplus of funds to the tune of rs 33 crore for 201617 it also listed a number of issues with the schools books accounting procedure lack of a procurement policy and penalties imposed for the illegal pruning of trees there is clearly some misunderstanding said the ahlcon official the rs 33 crore they talk about is our gratuity deposit we have over 200 staff members and the 25 increase for the year 201718 is for the seventh pay commission it will increase salaries by rs 45 crore another rs 42 crore will have to be paid in arrears with effect from january 2016 thats a total of over rs 8 crore they must have misunderstood our records and well write to doe again without increasing fees well not be able to manage the school he addeddoe has given ahlcon 30 days to rectify the deficiencies it listed in its december 23 decision it has also said that before making any request for the next academic session the school must prove it has complieda january order by the delhi high court stated that schools on government land required government sanction for fee increase if thats what their lease agreement states