Bill to regulate fee in pvt schools to be tabled in Assembly this week

The Delhi Government will in the coming week table the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2025, in the Assembly, ending the longstanding issue of arbitrary fee hike in private schools here.

“A two-day part session will be called this week, where a discussion on the Bill will be held,” a senior government official told The Tribune.

He said that a cabinet note in this regard has already been prepared, and the BJP government may soon approach Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena for his permission to hold the session.

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and Education Minister Ashish Sood have described the draft Bill as a “path-breaking and overdue reform”.

The new Bill seeks to regulate fees in all 1,677 private schools in the city and mandates a transparent mechanism involving parents, school management and the Directorate of Education. The Bill is expected to be tabled in the Assembly soon.

The Chief Minister said it is the first significant legislative effort in nearly three decades to rein in unchecked annual fee hikes and bring accountability to private education institutions.

Addressing an enthusiastic group of parents who had gathered at the Delhi Secretariat on Saturday, CM Gupta called the Bill “decisive and historic”. She assured families that the government would not tolerate any form of harassment by private schools over fees. “This is not just a Bill—it is our commitment to ensure that no student or parent faces injustice,” she said, urging citizens to report any such incident directly to her office or the Education Minister.

CM Gupta noted that the previous governments had failed to act, despite mounting grievances from parents.

“For 27 years, private schools increased fees without oversight. We have put an end to that practice in just two months of taking office,” she said.

She also promised that the 65 upcoming “CM Shri Schools” would be of such quality that families would actively choose government schools over private ones.

Education Minister Ashish Sood, who led the drafting of the Bill, criticised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for “politicising education and ignoring parents’ real concerns”.

He cited the case of Delhi Public School (DPS), Dwarka, where parents had protested against steep fee hike for years without any government response. “The former administration received over 20 complaints from these parents. They never even got an appointment with the Education Minister,” Sood said.

He added that under the new administration, a committee under the District Magistrate was quickly formed, and based on its findings, even the Delhi High Court issued strict orders against elite institutions like DPS.

While asserting that the government does not intend to create conflict with school managements, Sood emphasised the need to end the financial exploitation of parents. “We are not here to fight schools—we’re here to ensure fairness. Our government schools will soon be so strong that parents will compete for admission there,” he said.