Short answer. Liberty Gola at around ₹300 if your child will outgrow them in two terms, which most will. Bata velcro at around ₹590 if they are hard on shoes or you want them to survive a monsoon. Buy velcro until your child can tie laces properly, whatever the school prefers. Buy for the term, not for the year A school shoe in India has to survive about nine months, two monsoon stretches and a child who will grow half a size in that time. That makes it a consumable, not an i