New Delhi, March 12 -- The Delhi government's Directorate of Education has opposed before the Delhi High Court petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Act, 2025, arguing that the law does not take away the power of school managements to determine fees but merely introduces a "reasonable mechanism" to curb commercialisation and profiteering.

DoE, in an affidavit filed March 6, stated that the Act introduces checks and balances on fee-fixation powers while preserving the authority of school managements. The school management still places its fee proposal before the school-level fee regulation committee (SLFRC), the affidavit said.

The affidavit, which a be...