https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296934 Private unaided school fee regulation may validly require managements to propose fees for approval by statutory committees, using objective factors to prevent profiteering and commercialisation without impermissibly taking over fee fixation. The Rajasthan fee-regulation framework was upheld subject to a limited reading down of specified provisions, and it was treated as operating separately from the RTE Act. State executive power cannot override a self-contained statutory fee regime, and disaster-management or epidemic legislation does not authorise alteration of private fee contracts. The pandemic-era direction reducing already finalised school fees was therefore invalid, while a one-time adjustment for unutilised facilities was directed for the relevant academic year. en-us Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:26:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296934 Private unaided school fee regulation may validly require managements to propose fees for approval by statutory committees, using objective factors to prevent profiteering and commercialisation without impermissibly taking over fee fixation. The Rajasthan fee-regulation framework was upheld subject to a limited reading down of specified provisions, and it was treated as operating separately from the RTE Act. State executive power cannot override a self-contained statutory fee regime, and disaster-management or epidemic legislation does not authorise alteration of private fee contracts. The pandemic-era direction reducing already finalised school fees was therefore invalid, while a one-time adjustment for unutilised facilities was directed for the relevant academic year. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296934