India, Nov. 23 -- The Fee Regulatory Authority (FRA) has imposed a Rs.1 lakh penalty on 29 colleges across the state for failing to display their approved fee details on their official websites.

Under the Maharashtra Unaided Private Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admissions and Fees) Act, 2015, every college must publish its approved fee structure online to transparently provide students with information during admissions. Earlier this month, the FRA had issued notices to 445 institutions for not displaying fees and other required details on their websites.

According to the FRA, the authority examined the websites of 623 colleges and found that 445 of them had not uploaded the approved fee structure for the academi...