Chandigarh, March 19 -- Rajya Sabha member Vikramjit Singh Sahney on Wednesday called for urgent and time-bound rationalisation of school fees across the country, warning that arbitrary and non-transparent fee structures in private schools are pushing middle-class parents into severe financial distress.

Referring to the reply given by minister of state for education Jayant Choudhry in the Rajya Sabha on his question regarding regulation of fees in private educational institutions, he said that that while education is in the concurrent list and fee regulation has been left to state governments, there was still no uniform national framework to check excessive and recurring charges such as annual fees, readmission fees and hidden levies bey...