Kolkata: The West Bengal Education Department plans to table a bill to regulate the fees of private non-minority schools.
The draft of the bill has been approved by the Governor and it will soon be.be passed in the Assembly.
The minority educational institutions have not been included in the bill’s ambit.
In 2023, the government planned to set up a commission to deal with complaints of discriminatory fee hikes and charges levied by private schools.
The Education Department has been receiving complaints about exorbitant fees charged by private schools and their poor infrastructure.
The Bill has proposed a grade system instead of putting all schools in one bracket.
The commission will be assigned the responsibility of fixing the fee structure for the different categories of private schools.
