New Delhi, April 30 -- The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved the draft of the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill 2025-a legislation that chief minister Rekha Gupta called a "bold and historic" attempt to rein in arbitrary fee hikes by private schools.

The proposed law, a copy of which was accessed by HT, will be applicable to all 1,677 private unaided schools in Delhi and introduces three major reforms in the city's fee regulation regime.

First, it envisages a three-tier fee regulation structure involving committees at the school, district, and state levels, which will institutionalise parental participation in the process.

"Each school will now have a School-Level Fee Regulation Committee com...