A group of parents in India were unhappy with the high tuition fees in schools and poor quality in education, so they decided to start a school of their own. The founder of the Citizens Gurukul Trust, AbhilashMatlapudi, a 36-year-old project manager at a Bengaluru IT firm, (65) a conversation between parents on social media who were discussing the (66) costs of private school education. This was to be the spark that lit the match for Abhilash to take action. He took the idea of starting a community-run school in his neighborhood to a Whitefield-based citizen’s movement Facebook group, and the idea (67) . The school education system in India is costly and the costs are rising every year. A report in 2015 stated that the costs of private education in the last decade have increased at a pace faster than incomes, showing a 150% (68) between 2005 and 2015. The report further stated that the cost of educating a child in a private school has risen from Rs 55,000 in 2005 to Rs 1,25,000 per annum in 2015. An estimated 3 crore children in the country study in private schools, says the survey.