Supreme Court of India

Action Committee,un-aided Pvt. Schools & Ors. v. Director of Education Delhi & Ors.

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Reported as [2009] 12 S.C.R. 631
Bench S.B. Sinha, S.H. Kapadia and Cyriac Joseph JJ.
Decided 7 August 2009

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid discussion our conclusions may be summarised as under:- (i) It is the obligation of the Administrator and. or Director of Education to prevent commercialisation and exploitation in private unaided schools including schools run by minorities. (iii) No permission from Director of Education is necessary before or after fixing tuition fee.

Judgment, page 40

From the headnote

c Education/Educational Institutions - Unaided recognized schools - Regulation of fees and funds collected from students - Transfer of funds by the schools to the Societies/ trusts/other schools run by the same society - Direction by Director of Education (DOE) make such transfer in accordance with r. 177 of Delhi School Education Rules - Supreme Court by majority holding that DOE had power to regulate fee structure of private unaided schools including utilization of fee - Review Petition - Held: Per majority: Direction of DOE does not go beyond r. 177 - The direction is only a gap-filling

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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