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Move to fix fee for self-financing courses in engg. colleges

By S. Annamalai

MADURAI MAY 31. The Government is contemplating formation of a high-power committee, headed by the Vice-Chancellor of the Anna University, to fix the fee structure for self-financing courses offered by the Government and aided engineering colleges.

The move is necessitated by aided colleges utilising the infrastructure and staff, meant for aided courses, to run self-financing courses. The student strength, in many institutions, is higher in the self-financing stream than in the mainstream. In an aided engineering college in Coimbatore, 480 students, out of a total strength of 750, are pursuing self-financing courses, an official of the Directorate of Technical Education told The Hindu here today.

The Government was also considering forming a committee to monitor the fees collected by engineering colleges, especially self-financing institutions, in the light of the revised system of counselling for admissions this year. As the students were required to pay their fee directly at the college during admission, instead of the earlier practice of remitting it at the time of counselling, there was an apprehension that the fee collected for a course would vary from institution to institution. A proposal to extend the `NRI quota', now existing in the University, to six government engineering colleges was also under the consideration, the official said. The fee structure for the NRI students was being worked out.

To make self-financing technical courses affordable to students, the Directorate of Technical Education intended introducing new courses in demand areas like IT and Biotechnology in government colleges. As the fee structure for these courses in the self-financing institutions was found to be high, government colleges would be able to offer them at affordable levels, it was felt.

The DTE official said the level of development fee collected by the self-financing engineering colleges was bound to come down once the government institutions started offering new courses. Already there was a downtrend in the quantum of capitation fee collected, with some private engineering colleges even announcing `capitation fee-free admission'.

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