₹7.35 lakh a 12 months for a kid in Grade 1. That’s the worth tag CA Kapil Gupta flagged in a LinkedIn publish this week, questioning whether or not faculties are “instructing kids or launching them to Mars.”
Gupta was reacting to a charge round for the 2025–26 educational 12 months, the place a top-tier non-public faculty lists ₹7.35 lakh because the annual charge for its IB Main Years Programme (Grades 1 to five), or ₹3.67 lakh per time period.
Charges climb steadily: ₹7.75 lakh for Grades 6–8, ₹8.5 lakh for Grades 9–10, and a staggering ₹11 lakh per 12 months for Grades 11 and 12 below the IB Diploma Programme. Even the ICSE stream (Grades 6–10) isn’t far behind at ₹5.94 lakh yearly.
“Training and healthcare are alleged to be fundamental rights, however in our nation, they’re slowly turning into luxurious companies,” Gupta wrote. “Within the identify of IB and worldwide boards, faculties have turned this right into a enterprise mannequin.”
He argued that these faculties prey on parental anxiousness by advertising and marketing costly training as the one path to success. “Truthfully, with this cash many people accomplished our whole training. What’s there in Grade 1 that prices a lot?”
The publish takes intention at a system that Gupta believes has drifted removed from its goal. “Non-public faculties have turn out to be a centre of organised loot,” he wrote. “Every state authorities should step in and put a cap on how a lot charge might be charged, particularly on the elementary degree.”
The varsity additionally calls for a one-time, non-refundable admission charge of ₹1 lakh and a ₹1,000 software cost—earlier than tuition even begins.
“If issues proceed like this, high quality training will stay solely a dream for middle-class households,” Gupta warned. “Information is for everybody, however at this time it’s being offered like a luxurious product.”
