JUDGMENT

B.R. Sarangi, J.

1. The petitioners, who are claiming themselves to be the parents of some of the non-NTPC students of St. Mary’s School, Deepshikha, NTPC in the district of Angul, have filed this petition assailing the unusual hike of school fees for the session 2013-14, communicated with the notice dated 01.04.2014, vide Annexure-2 as in view of the judgment of this Court in Tapas Kumar Sahu and Others vs. Union of India & Others, 2012 (II) OLR 431, they are not liable to pay the enhanced fees.

2. St. Mary’s School, Deepshikha, NTPC in the district of Angul is a recognized unaided Christian Minority Institution (Primer Educational Institution) in the township of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Talcher, which was established on 14th August, 1989 under the Management of the Handmaids of Mary, a Registered Religious Society, Sundargarh with classes from LKG to Class XII with Science stream in the Plus Two (+2) and was affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi in 1994. Now more than 700 Students are prosecuting their study in the School, who have been admitted by fulfilling requisite admission criteria as envisaged by the institution