Supreme Court bars arbitrary mid-course fee hikes in professional education
Quick dive
- The Supreme Court held that students entering four- or five-year professional courses must know the financial commitment at the outset.
- It said fee-fixation committees should function as continuing institutions that periodically assess costs and make timely decisions.
- Periodic fee revision is not prohibited, but increases must be justified, non-arbitrary and tied to unforeseeable or extraordinary economic conditions.
- The judgment balanced students’ need for fee certainty with institutions’ legitimate fiscal interest in maintaining infrastructure and academic quality.
- exam_relevance: tests judicial review of delegated fee regulation, the balance between affordability and institutional autonomy, and the Article 14-style prohibition of arbitrariness through a concrete education-law judgment.
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