Srinagar, Jan. 29 -- The J&K High Court on Wednesday upheld the constitutional legitimacy of amendments in the J&K School Education Act, 2002 (effected post-2019) that created and empowered the Fee Fixation and Regulation Committee (FFRC) to put a brake on the "exploitation" by private schools in the erstwhile state.

The petitioner private schools had challenged Government Order No. SO 3466(E) dated 05.10.2020 and SO 177 of 2022 dated 15.04.2022, issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, which introduced major amendments to the Jammu and Kashmir School Education Act, 2002.

By inserting Sections 20-A to 20-J, the amendments created the FFRC for J&K and subsequently prescribed the powers and functions of the Committee under Rules 5, 6, and ...