CAN UT ADMN REGULATE FEES?

Rubinderjit Singh Brar, director, school education, says under unprecedented circumstances such as the Covid19 outbreak, the education department can regulate how much fee schools can charge. The Punjab Educational Institutions Fee Regulation Act, 2018 confers powers on the UT education department as a fee-regulatory authority to check profiteering among schools. Invoking the same Act, the UT education department asked schools to upload their balance sheets online, which a majority of institutes did not comply with.