New Delhi, May 3 -- The Delhi cabinet approved the School Fee Act to regulate fee increases for all private schools. Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood on Saturday stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Delhi government aims to stop the exploitation of students and their parents through arbitrary fee hikes.

Sood criticised the previous AAP government, alleging that they allowed private schools to extort money from students and their parents through under-the-table settlements. He claimed that the previous government prioritized political ambitions over the welfare of students.

"Unlike AAP government, our government has closed off ways through which children were made medium of loot... the previous government could have done that b...