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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday held that that a law can be framed to regulate fees in private unaided schools to stop profiteering by the management and parents can also be made a part of the process to decide fees.
While upholding Rajasthan Schools (Regulation of Fee) Act which mandates all the 36,000 private unaided schools in the state to maintain proper account books which would be scrutinised and setting up of a nine-member School Level Fee Committee, the bench said that there was no illegality in the law. The committee comprised a representative of the management, five parents, three teachers and one principal.