Four months after the Delhi Assembly passed the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2025, to regulate fees in private schools amid protests by parents over arbitrary hikes, the Delhi government officially notified the Act on Wednesday with Lieutenant-Governor V K Saxena issuing the Gazette notification, The Indian Express has learnt.

At the centre of the new regime is a three-tier committee structure — a School-level Fee Regulation Committee, the District Fee Appellate Committee, and the Revision Committee. Another key aspect of the Act is that a complaint to the District-level Committee must be backed by at least 15% of the affected parents. The Act makes parents a part of the decision-making process.

However, parent associations had previously

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