In Brief
Icon Education Society, which operates two minority educational institutions in Madhya Pradesh, challenged the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee's (AFRC) requirement that it submit proposed fees for review and regulation. The Supreme Court held that while the AFRC cannot unilaterally fix fees, minority institutions must nonetheless submit their proposed fees to the AFRC for regulatory review under Section 9 of the 2007 Act. The Court clarified that the AFRC's role is limited to ensuring proposed fees are justified by statutory parameters and do not constitute profiteering, not to impose its own fee structure. The same rules apply equally to minority and non-minority institutions.
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