Delhi Govt To Introduce Bill To Regulate Fee Hikes Across Private Schools: CM Rekha Gupta
As per the Cabinet-approved ordinance passed on April 29, the bill will enforce strict penalties on schools that arbitrarily increase fees.
The Delhi government will introduce a bill to regulate fee hikes by private schools in the upcoming Monsoon Session, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced on Saturday. As per the Cabinet-approved ordinance passed on April 29, the bill will enforce strict penalties on schools that arbitrarily increase fees, reported PTI.
For a first offence, schools will face fines ranging from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh, with repeat violations drawing penalties between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 10 lakh. If a school fails to refund within the specified time, the fine doubles after 20 days, triples after 40 days, and continues to increase with every 20-day delay. Continuous violations may result in a ban on holding official positions in the school management and the loss of the right to propose future fee revisions, the report added.
'It is a matter of happiness that the Delhi Legislative Assembly will now be paperless. We have also developed the assembly as a model Legislative Assembly, as it is now completely dependent on solar power," she stated.
The chief minister added that efforts are also underway to make the Delhi Secretariat paperless, as part of the government's broader digital and sustainable governance agenda.
'We are taking policy decisions to make Delhi developed," she said.
The Monsoon Session will be the third session of the Delhi Assembly under the Rekha Gupta-led government.
view comments
Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Hindustan Times
18 minutes ago
- Hindustan Times
Man dies by suicide in Kolkata, family claims he was living in fear of NRC
Kolkata: A 63-year-old man was found hanging in his residence in Kolkata on Sunday morning, with his family claiming that he had been living in fear that he would be sent to Bangladesh if the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was implemented. The victim worked as a non-teaching staff member at a private school in Dhakuria in south Kolkata.(For representation/PTI) Initial probe revealed that the deceased, Dilip Kumar Saha, had arrived in Kolkata in 1972 from Nawabganj in Dhaka and had been living in Anandapally West in the Regent Park area, a police officer said. Saha worked as a non-teaching staff member at a private school in Dhakuria in south Kolkata. "This morning, his wife called him several times, but received no response from inside his locked room. She then called their niece-in-law from a neighbouring house. They broke open the door to find him hanging from the ceiling fan," the officer said. The deceased's wife Arati Saha said her husband had been worried that he would be deported to Bangladesh after implementation of the NRC. "He has been under severe stress for quite some time regarding this. There was no other tension. He came to Kolkata in his childhood. He was afraid that he would be sent to a detention camp and then pushed back to Bangladesh, where he had nobody. He had valid voter ID card and other documents," she said. It is suspected that this fear led him to take his own life, the police officer said, adding that a suicide note has been recovered from the room. The matter is being investigated, the officer said. Power Minister and local Trinamool Congress MLA Arup Biswas reached the place and spoke to the family members. "This is what the fear of being thrown out of the country could do to a man. What they (Centre) have started in the name of the SIR shows their anti-people attitude, and the result is in front of you," Biswas said.
Deccan Herald
18 minutes ago
- Deccan Herald
Karnataka govt floats Rs 880 crore tender for 890 drugs
The government has directed the department to request additional funds from this year's allocation once the current balance of Rs 619 crore drops to about Rs 200 crore.
Economic Times
18 minutes ago
- Economic Times
ET Exclusive: ED to question bank officials over Rs 17,000 cr loan fraud linked to Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will summon officials of private and public sector banks that had given loans to Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group for questioning in connection with its money laundering probe into the alleged ₹17,000 crore bank loan fraud, said people with knowledge of the matter. The central agency, which has already summoned Ambani in the case, will question the officials on the action initiated by them against the Reliance Group companies which had failed to repay the loans, they said. 'We want to ascertain what action the banks took, if any, against the companies which defaulted. Did they lodge a complaint with any investigating agency, seeking registration of a criminal case against the companies?' a senior official told ET on condition of ED will also seek details of the credit assessment conducted by the banks, the official said, adding the agency will issue summons to the bank officials in next few 20 private and public sector banks had given loans to Reliance Group entities which eventually turned into non-performing assets. Loans to three group companies—Reliance Home Finance Ltd (RHFL), Reliance Commercial Finance Ltd (RCFL) and Reliance Communications (RCom)—totalled about ₹17,000 crore. According to data available with the ED, RHFL owes more than ₹5,901 crore to banks, while RCFL has outstanding loans of over ₹8,226 crore and the outstanding loan amount in the case of RCom is nearly ₹4,105 crore. Besides the beleaguered Yes Bank, other lenders that gave loans to Reliance Group companies include State Bank of India (SBI), UCO Bank, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Bank of India and Punjab and Sind Bank. ET was the first to report on August 1 that the ED had issued summons to Anil Ambani for questioning in connection with the alleged loan fraud case. He has been asked to appear at the ED headquarters in the capital on August 5. Late on Friday, the ED arrested the managing director of an Odisha-based company, its first arrest in the case allegedly involving Reliance Group. The agency has accused Partha Sarathi Biswal, managing director of Biswal Tradelink Pvt Ltd (BTPL), of arranging a fake bank guarantee of Rs 68 crore for a Reliance Group ED sought six days of custodial interrogation of Biswal to ascertain 'his role and role of other associates/entities and to identify the beneficiaries of the proceeds of crime', said the court order, a copy of which was seen by agency also sought custodial interrogation on the grounds that it had to recover the alleged proceeds of crime. It informed a local court that it had seized 'various incriminating voluminous documents and digital devices' from Biswal's residence during its raid on August 1. Advocate Ayush Jindal appeared on behalf of Biswal. A Delhi special court ruled that 'there is prima facie compliance of Section 19 of PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) during the arrest of the accused'. 'The investigating officer (IO) from the material and the investigation conducted has formed an opinion that the accused is guilty for the offences of money laundering and effected his arrest accordingly,' it Saturday, Biswal was remanded to ED custody till August to the ED, its investigation revealed that BTPL fraudulently arranged and submitted the fake bank guarantee along with forged SBI endorsements and fabricated confirmations on behalf of Reliance Nu Bess Ltd for a tender floated by Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd (SECI). For this, BTPL received Rs 5.40 crore from Reliance Nu Bess' parent, Reliance Power Ltd, the agency has evidence gathered by the ED confirmed the use of fake documents in the name of certain banks and fake email IDs in the name of SBI, said a press statement on Saturday, the ED said, 'Probe reveals BTPL, a small company incorporated in 2019, maintained multiple undisclosed bank accounts and carried out transactions disproportionate to its declared turnover. Many violations of the Companies Act are found.'Statutory records such as books of accounts and shareholders' registers were not found at the registered address, it said, adding: 'Dummy directors are found to be used just to sign the documents.' At least seven undisclosed bank accounts of the company were found and 'proceeds of crime, of crores of rupees, have been traced to these accounts', the ED to the agency, Biswal Tradelink ran a racket that issued fake bank guarantees to business per the ED, the Delhi Police filed the first information report in the case based on a Reliance Nu Bess complaint accusing Biswal Tradelink of cheating it by promising to arrange bank guarantees for a fee and then providing a fake bank guarantee. According to the ED, Reliance Nu Bess wrongly claimed that it was cheated. 'Documentary evidence reveals that apparently the two parties acted in collusion. The directors of Biswal Tradelink were found to be previous directors of Reliance Group,' a senior official had told ET.A statement issued by Reliance Group on Friday said, 'The company and its subsidiaries acted bonafidely and have been a victim of fraud, forgery and cheating conspiracy. The company has made due disclosure on this to the stock exchanges on November 7, 2024.'It further said that 'a criminal complaint in this regard has already been lodged with the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police against the third party on October 16, 2024' and that the 'due process of law will follow'.
