Chandigarh, July 14 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday announced that regulatory committees headed by deputy commissioners (DCs) will scrutinise private school fee across all districts.

To ensure absolute compliance, the state government has directed all private schools to upload their complete fee records of the last four years onto a designated portal within the next 10 days. The strict administrative intervention follows the state government's recent legislative move to bring private school fees under a strict regulatory framework by promulgating the Punjab Regulation of Fees of Unaided Educational Institutions (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026. Under this new mandate, annual private school fee hikes have been legally capped at 5%, a...