With the BJP-led Delhi Government completing 100 days in office, Education, Power, Home and Urban Development Minister Ashish Sood said on Wednesday that the Rekha Gupta Government will bring an ordinance to implement the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2025, to control arbitrary fee hikes by private schools. According to Sood, in the first 100 days, his Government has balanced faith with focused action — 100 days of belief, and 100 days of dedicated work. The Education Minister also said the Government has released grant-in-aid of Rs 417 crore to 12 Delhi University colleges fully funded by it and other universities. Earlier, the Bill was scheduled to be tabled in the Delhi Assembly during a session on May 14-15 but the same was postponed. We will introduce the Delhi School Education Transparency Bill, which could not be tabled in the last Assembly session, we are bringing an ordinance to turn it into law to end the exploitation by schools. This has greatly upset those who have supported the school mafia for the past 27 years. To bring more accountability in private education, the Delhi School Education Transparency Bill has been introduced, which prohibits private schools from forcing parents to buy books and uniforms from designated shops — a practice that went unchecked for decades, the minister said. The Minister claimed that school fees went up every year. But in our 100 days, not a single school increased its fees. The minister also played video reports by various news outlets showing parents protesting against fee hikes at Delhi Public School (DPS), Dwarka. The issue of fee hikes is not new. These protests have been happening since 2021, even earlier — and yet the previous AAP Government did nothing, Sood said. For EWS (Economically Weaker Section) admissions, I say with full confidence that this year, not a single complaint has emerged from Delhi. Last year, the Opposition had handed out EWS admissions in households, without transparency. This year, with the push of a button, 28,000 children received EWS admission letters. Soon, 38,000 children will get final admissions, the minister said. Under the CM Digital Education Scheme, 1,200 students have received laptops, while a long-pending scholarship backlog has been cleared with the release of Rs 19 crore to 1,300 students from low-income families, the minister said. Stating that free online coaching for NEET and CUET has been launched in partnership with MSTC and edtech platforms such as Physics Wallah, Sood said, This step is meant for those students who cannot afford expensive coaching. The minister also said that the Government is establishing 75 CM Shri Schools featuring AI-based learning, smart classrooms, and training in data science and robotics, for which a special allocation of Rs 100 crore has been made. The Government will set up Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Language Labs in 100 schools to teach foreign languages such as French and German, while 250 schools will have digital libraries, he said. Shifting focus to urban development, Sood reaffirmed the Governments commitment that no slum will be demolished in Delhi. He said the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) has been allocated a record Rs 700 crore to improve the living conditions in the slum areas by building better roads and toilets and by ensuring electricity and water supply. According to Sood, 2,500 homes built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, which were left unoccupied due to political reasons, are now being restored and made livable with a Budget of Rs 43 crore. Referring to the Madarasi Camp case currently pending before the Delhi HC, Sood said relocation was essential to prevent urban flooding, and of the 370 families, 215 have already been resettled in Narela. He presented comparative data on power cuts, showing a marked improvement. From February to May in 2020, there were 2,721 instances of power cuts lasting over 30 minutes; in 2021 — 2,209 times; 2022 — 1,918; 2023 — 2,167; and 2024 — 2,045. In contrast, in 2025, under the new Government, only 1,946 such instances were recorded, highlighting consistent efforts for uninterrupted power supply.

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