New Delhi, April 30 -- A day after the Delhi Cabinet approved the Delhi School Education Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees Bill, 2025, AAP leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) Atishi urged Chief Minister Rekha Gupta to take urgent measures to protect parents from the arbitrary fee hikes by private schools for the current academic year.

In a letter to Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Atishi said that the draft bill seeks to regulate future fee hike from academic year 2026-27 onwards - and even those provisions will need to be examined, leaving the "most" important question unanswered: what happens to the fees already hiked by private schools this year?

She questioned what would happen to the parents facing these problems in the...