The Committee has been constituted in consonance with the judicial direction in a long drawn battle with an aim and object to protect the interest of the students community as a whole as also the minorities themselves in maintaining required standards of professional education on non-exploitative terms in the Institutions.

There was a dispute relating to opening of educational institutions and control of management, etc.

Taking all aspects, a Bench of the Supreme Court constituting 11 Judges in a case of T.M.A. Pai foundation v. State of Karnataka reported in (2002) 8 SCC 481 held that a State Regulation should be minimal and only with a view to maintain fairness and transparency in Admission Procedure and as to check exploitation of the students by charging exorbitant money or capitation fee.

Subsequently in the case of Islamic Academy of Education v. State of Karnataka reported in (2003) 6 SCC 697, the Apex Court taking into consideration the earlier decision issued guidelines in the matter of regulating the fee payable by the students to the educational institutions, which reads as such:-

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