Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood will introduce the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Act, 2025, in the monsoon session of the Delhi Assembly scheduled to begin tomorrow.

The Bill outlines a structured mechanism for determining the fees of 1,677 private and government-aided schools in the city. It comes in the wake of widespread protests by parents over arbitrary fee hikes at the start of the current academic session in April.

Under the proposed legislation, a ‘fee fixation committee’ will be constituted in every school, comprising parents, teachers and representatives from the administration. The committee will examine the school’s proposed fee structure, which will then be forwarded to the designated government authority for approval.

In addition, district and state-level appeal and monitoring committees will be established to promptly address complaints and irregularities. Fees will be regulated based on 18 parameters, including school leadership, infrastructure quality, academic outcomes and financial requirements. The aim is to allow only genuinely needy schools to increase fees and that too within reasonable limits.

Importantly, schools will be permitted to hike fees only once every three years and only with valid justification.