Private School Fee Regulation Law Won't Be Enforced In 2025-26 : Delhi Govt Tells Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Tuesday recorded the statement of the Delhi Government that the newly notified law regulating fees in private schools in the national capital will not be implemented for the current academic year 2025-26.

Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, appearing for the Delhi Government, informed the Court that the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixing and Regulation of Fees) Act, 2025, which was notified in December last year, would not be enforced in the current academic year.

The Bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by various private school managements challenging the Delhi High Court's refusal to stay the implementation of the Act.

Last month, the Supreme Court had raised concerns about the enforcement of the Act in the middle of the academic year, even while acknowledging that private school fee has gone to exorbitant levels.

Today, with the statement made by the ASG, the Court said that its interference is no longer needed. "When the matter came before us, our concern was the hurry in implementation. We would have set that aside. But they said that we will do it from next year. To that extent our interference at this stage is over," Justice Narasimha said.

Recording the submissions of the Additional Solicitor General, the Court passed an order stating that since the new legal regime will not be implemented in the 2025-26 academic year, no further orders were necessary. The Court clarified that all questions were kept open to be raised before the Delhi High Court.

"In view of the clarification of Mr ASG Raju and the learned counsel for the authority Director of Education that the legal regime will not be implemented with effect from 2025-26, no further orders are required. All questions are kept open for being raised before the High Court," the bench noted.

The Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixing and Regulation of Fees) Act, 2025 seeks to introduce a statutory framework for regulation of fees charged by private unaided schools in the capital.

Case no. – SLP(C) No. 2602/2026 and connected cases.

Case Title – Rohini Educational Society v. Directorate of Education and connected cases