Chandigarh, Sept. 27 -- Two months after initiating a slew of measures to rein in schools charging exorbitant fee from students, the Punjab government assured the high court on September 22 that it would not implement the decision for retrospective excess fee recovery from private schools till the October 30 hearing. The undertaking was given during the hearing of a clutch of petitions filed by schools' associations challenging the provisions of the Punjab Regulation of Fee of Un-aided Educational Institutions (Amendment) Act, 2026. Among other measures, the law mandated recovery of excess fee charged by private schools and the same had to be refunded to the students. P3...