The Madras High Court has reserved its order in a case challenging directions that require private schools across Tamil Nadu to display tuition fee details on their notice boards.
The Tamil Nadu State Information Commission had, on May 25, instructed the Director of Private Schools to make it mandatory for all private schools to publish the government-determined fee particulars on school display boards.
Following this, the Director of Private Schools issued a circular on June 1 to private nursery, primary, matriculation, CBSE and other board schools, asking them to put up the fee details on their notice boards by June 5.
The petition was filed by K. Palaniyappan, General Secretary of the All India Association of Private Educational Institutions, seeking to quash both the Information Commission’s order and the subsequent circular.
During the hearing before Justice M. Dhandapani, the court questioned what difficulty schools face in being transparent about their fee details, and reserved the verdict without specifying a date.
