Punjab caps annual fee hike for private schools at 5%

The Punjab government on Monday (June 22, 2026) approved an ordinance, placing a cap of five percent on annual fee hike by private unaided schools across the State

The decision was taken in the Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. According to a statement released by Chief Minister’s Office “In order to regularize unnecessary and unreasonable increase in fee by private non-aided schools, the Punjab Cabinet led by CM Bhagwant Singh Mann gave nod to bring Punjab Regulation of Fee of Un-aided Educational Institutions (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026.”

The Ordinance has been brought by amending the Punjab Regulation of Fee of Unaided Educational Institutions Act, 2016. The move is aimed to have an effective control over fee hikes, to provide protection to students and parents from arbitrary fee hikes, to ensure transparency and accountability in fee structure and to protect the interests of students and parents, it said.

The amendments aim to bring greater clarity in the definitions of fee, fee enhancement and cumulative fee enhancement, to place a cap of 5% on annual fee hike by un-aided Schools and to provide for prior approval of the regulatory body for any fee hike beyond five percent, it added.

The Cabinet also gave consent to amend the 2019 guidelines for disbursement of capital subsidy-investment incentives under the State’s industrial policies to give boost to industrial development. “Under the revised framework, capital subsidy will be released to industrial units, who become eligible after omission of clauses 1.1 and 1.2 of the guidelines, subject to verification of requisite documents and fulfillment of prescribed conditions,” said the statement.