Summary:
The Fee Regulatory Committee (FRC) received 49 complaints in the last two years about schools charging higher than the fee fixed by the committee. Interestingly, most of the schools that charged exorbitantly more than the fee fixed by the FRC were affiliated to international boards. For this year, it has set a lower cut-off of Rs 15,000 for primary, Rs 25,000 for secondary and Rs 30,000 for higher secondary schools. In the year 2017, the state Assembly had passed a law to prevent private schools from charging exorbitant fees from students. The Gujarat Self-Financed Schools (Regulation of Fees) Act, 2017 allowed the state to fix the fee for primary, secondary and higher secondary schools and was a binding on schools offering the state education board curriculum as well as CBSE, ICSE and international baccalaureate boards..