School Fee Hike

Jamia Millia Islamia hikes fees by up to 41% across courses for 2025-26

Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has announced a fee hike for the academic year 2025-26, with increases ranging from 16 to 41 per cent across various courses. A comparison of the latest prospectus with that of the previous year reveals a sharp rise in tuition fees. The Department of Persian has seen a 41.41 per cent increase, with fees rising from Rs 6,700 to Rs 9,475 per year. The Department of Arabic follows closely, with a 37.15 per cent hike, pushing annual fees from Rs 7,200 to Rs 9,875. Similarly, foreign language programmes, including BA (Hons) in Turkish and other languages, have also witnessed a 37.15 per cent fee rise. Social sciences programmes, including MA and BA (Hons) in Political Science, four-year BA (Multidisciplinary), and B Com (Hons), now cost Rs 9,875 per year, reflecting a 32.99 per cent increase from the previous Rs 7,425. Science programmes, including BSc (multidisciplinary), Geography, Mathematics, and Physics, have undergone a 34.29 per cent hike, raising fees

School fee bill underlines education not commercial enterprise: Delhi CM

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday said the broad message of the bill introduced by the Delhi government to regulate fee hikes by private schools was to underline that education was not a commercial enterprise. "Its for the first time that a government is openly standing alongside the parents of school children in Delhi. The AAP is looking sideways now as the BJP government did what it could not do while being in power in Delhi," Gupta told reporters. Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood tabled the 'Delhi School Education Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees Bill, 2025' on the first day of the ongoing Monsoon session. The bill is scheduled to be discussed and passed in the Assembly later in the day. Members of the House were also allowed to propose amendments in its provisions. It seeks to regulate the fees of all private, recognised unaided schools in Delhi through a three-tier system of assessment and approvals via committees set up for the purpose, with stiff penalt

Crackdown on school fee hike: Delhi govt to bring bill in monsoon session

Delhi govt will table the education bill to regulate fee hike by private schools in the monsoon session of the Assembly beginning from August 4, says Delhi CM Rekha Gupta

Delhi govt cracks down on private school fee hikes, plans ordinance

Draft ordinance proposes penalties up to ₹50,000 and allows school property seizure for repeat violations to regulate arbitrary private school fee hikes

Crushed by school fees? Parents rise in protest across major cities

Protests erupt across Delhi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad as parents struggle to keep up with rising education costs

CM Rekha Gupta warns Delhi's private schools against arbitrary fee hikes

The CM stated that immediate action has been directed, with officials instructed to investigate and take strict measures

DPS Dwarka row: NCPCR suggest CBSE de-affiliation with school, filing FIR

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) considers recommending CBSE de-affiliation of DPS Dwarka over alleged student mistreatment and harassment over new fee structure

MP: 10 schools to return Rs 65 crore fees illegally collected from students

The authorities in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district have directed ten private schools to refund about Rs 65 crore charged extra as tuition fees from more than 81,000 students over seven academic sessions, an official said on Thursday. The schools had hiked tuition fees in violation of the law, said Jabalpur District Education Officer (DEO) Ghanshyam Soni. The district-level committee set up under the Madhya Pradesh Niji Vidyalaya (Fees Tatha Sambandhit Vishayon Ka Viniyaman) Adhiniyam, 2017, examined the accounts of these schools and found them to be charging extra fees from students, he said. The authorities have junked the illegal increase in fees by these schools and the collection of Rs 64.58 crore from 81,117 students between 2018-19 and 2024-25, he said. Soni told PTI that he issued notices to the schools on Tuesday directing them to refund the illegally collected fees. On May 27, the Jabalpur district administration had got 11 FIRs registered against school functionaries

Delhi govt suspends recognition of DPS Rohini for violating fee hike norms

The Directorate of Education (DoE) of Delhi government has suspended the recognition of DPS Rohini for violating norms of hiking fees during the 2021-22 academic sessions

Delhi govt cancels recognition of private school over arbitrary fee hike

The government has also barred Bal Bharti School from taking any admissions from the new academic session in 2022 and maintained that the school will be allowed to complete the ongoing session

UP govt bans any hike in school fees for upcoming academic session

Uttar Pradesh govt has banned any increase in school fees across all the boards for the upcoming academic session (2021-2022) owing to the coronavirus pandemic situation

Delhi govt revokes permission for fee hike done by private school

Arvind Kejriwal has given instructions for revocation of the permission given to the Sanskriti School here for the hike of school fees, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Thursday

School fee hike issue in court, guardians should desist from protesting: HC

The Calcutta High Court expressed hope that parents of students will desist from carrying out protest in front of schools over fees since the matter is being considered by the court

Protesting fee hike, IIMC students threaten hunger strike from Tuesday

The IIMC students have been protesting since December 3

CBSE exam fee hike for 2020 Board on no profit no loss basis: HRD Minister

The minister said CBSE is a self financed and self-reliant board and generates its own resources

Fee hike: 64 students expelled in Ghaziabad over default; parents protest

Khaitan Public School expelled 64 students as their parents did not pay enhanced fees

Ghaziabad: Parents stage protest against annual fee hike by private schools

Ghaziabad schools not to levy annual charges till panel submits report