ORDER :

Pratap Krishna Lohra, J.

1. Petitioners, 19 in number, are the private unaided educational institutions imparting school education of different standards and affiliated with either Central Board of Secondary Education or Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education. The affairs of these schools are administered/managed by the societies registered under Rajasthan Societies Registration Act, 1958. By these writ petitions, on their behalf challenge is laid to validity of Rajasthan Schools (Regulation of Fee) Act, 2016 (for short, 'Act') with emphasis and focus on Sections 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15 & 16 of the Act and Rules 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 & 11 of the Rajasthan Schools (Regulation of Fee) Rules, 2017 (for short, 'Rules').

2. In order to assail vires of the impugned provisions of the Act and the Rules, the petitioners have boosted the standard of education imparted by them besides infrastructural facilities and other comforts offered to the students. Petitioners, in general, have highlighted efficient teachers employed in their institutions and some of the special features including well equipped library, playgrounds, skill development programmes etc., which according to them is not ava