JAMMU, Feb. 2 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has upheld the statutory mechanism empowering the Committee for Fixation and Regulation of Fee of Private Schools (FFRC) to regulate fees of private schools in the Union Territory, holding that the framework is aimed at preventing commercialisation and profiteering in education.
A Division Bench of Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Sanjay Parihar, however, took serious exception to the provision that allows a retired senior executive officer-of the rank of Financial Commissioner or above-to head the FFRC, observing that this is not in consonance with binding directions of the Supreme Court of India. The court noted that the Supreme Court had clearly laid down that the fee-fixati...