[Salarpuria Greenage] Concerns regarding cuddles fees

Hello all,

I have 2.9 yr son and I have been visiting various pre-schools and daycare.
I went to our in-campus cuddles to check after-school daycare. And I found their fees really exorbitant. They have just added various components under the label of admission fees, application fees, maintenance fees, deposit fees, extended hours etc etc to extort money. 

    

* Day care kit is 7000 Rs, which includes 2 bedsheets and 1 bag. I have never bought so costly bedsheets before.
* Refundable deposit is 9000 Rs, Anyways they take quarterly fee in-advance and we leave our precious ones with them, why there is need of deposit amount?
* They are operational in evening till 7 pm. But standard fees is for timing till 6.30pm. For those extra 30 mins, there is extended hours fees.
* So annually daycare fees of my son comes out to be Rs 1,14,500  + 9000 (refundable deposit)
*For younger babies annual daycare fees will come out to be Rs 1,60,000 + 9000.  In my experience this is way too high compared to other similar daycares.I am not considering cuddles playschool. But for reference here is their nursery class fees, that is almost Rs 78,000 annually.

    

Here is my opinion on the playschool:
* Founder of the school, Mrs Chandrika has another 'little millenium' franchisee school in HSR layout. After talking to Ramya (cuddles centre in-charge), i felt they are using same little millenium curriculum here without taking the franchise. They claim to have designed their own curriculum. When i asked what are the improvements that they have done over that curriculum, she couldn't give convincing reply. They are charging double the fees and even saving the franchise costs. 
* To cross-check, i visited 'little millenium' franchise playschool in bellandur. They also have similar curriculum. The explanation that bellandur centre head gave was very similar to what Ramya gave. They seemed to be coming from same source. And annual fees for this centre comes around 40,000 Rs.

We, working parents, have given our next many years of earning to buy an apartment here and one of the main reason was in-campus daycare facility.  Because of the convenience and safety of being in-campus, we have to go with this option.
Do other parents also find this fees unreasonable? If yes, may be we can take it up with them together.
I understand some greenage members were also in the panel for deciding daycare provider. Cuddles daycare was chosen among 14 other contenders. Can anybody shed light on what were the points considered? If GOA intervene, can we change the daycare provider? Is that an option?

Plz share your thoughts.

Regards,
[deleted]
PS: Above mentioned opinion is my personal opinion

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Yes very nicely put [deleted].
I had enquired about their fees and found it to be exorbitant. They are charging some fee or the other on some or the other pretext.

Also, quality is not what you would expect by paying so high a fee. I personally asked many parents about the quality of teachers etc , and the response that I got was its not great and the only reason they send their kids is coz of convenience.

Im not sure if Greenage is charging any rent, but given that they have got this opportunity, they should act responsibly and not extract as much as they can from parents.

Seriously, there should be a cap on their fee. Any vendor that gets in here gains a monopoly and starts looting the helpless residents. Same thing happened with the grocery shop, the car wash guy, newspaper guy and others.

Cuddles should be given a 1-2 year contract and if their performance is not good, they should be replaced. Such kind of clauses can only force them to have reasonable fee.

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This robbery will only stop when GOA takes over management of complex. Otherwise, builder knows how to make money in the pretext of maintaining complex.

I hope our legal team would mention this issue also in court in next association hearing and expedite decision. All pricing detail is attached with previous email which can be produced in court.

Once we have control we will kick them out and get someone who does not believe in robbing customers.

Till then from our side we should keep building pressure on builder from all aspects.