India, Jan. 9 -- The Delhi High Court on Thursday declined to stay a Delhi government notification directing all the schools in the Capital to constitute a fee regulation committee for the 2025-26 academic session, observing that it was only a "one-time" measures and that government had agreed to extend the deadline for its formation.

A bench comprising Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia noted that the proviso to Section 5 of the recently notified Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Act, 2025, expressly provides that the fees charged by schools for the 2025-26 academic session (starting April 1, 2025) shall be treated as "proposed fees".

"It's a one-time measure. It's not by way of a...