JUDGMENT :

A.M. Khanwilkar, J.

1. These two sets of appeals are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. In the first set of appeals, six appeals¹[arising out of SLP (C) No. 27881 of 2019; SLP (C) Nos.27907-27916 of 2019; SLP (C) No. 27987 of 2019; SLP (C) No. 2942 of 2020; SLP (C) No. 5902 of 2020; and SLP (C) No …………. of 2021 @ Diary No(s). 6803 of 2020;] emanate from common judgment and order dated 14.08.2019 passed by the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan at Jodhpur and two other appeals²[arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 5470 and 5589 of 2020] against the judgment and order dated 11.02.2020 of the Jaipur Bench of the same High Court, which followed the earlier decision of the Jodhpur seat referred to above. In these matters, the appellants (Management(s) of private unaided schools in the State of Rajasthan) had assailed the validity of the Rajasthan Schools (Regulation of Fee) Act, 2016³[for short, “the Act of 2016”], in particular Sections 3, 4, 6 to 11, 15 and 16 and the Rules framed thereunder titled Rajasthan Schools (Regulation of Fee) Rules, 2017⁴[for short, “the Ru