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Self-financing colleges: Church council unhappy over proposals

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 9. The Inter-Church Council for Education, an umbrella organisation of Christian managements of educational institutions, has taken exception to certain proposals that came up at the discussions that the Government had here yesterday with the representatives of private managements.

The council has clarified that the proposal for collecting only the fee that is in force in the government institutions, from 50 per cent of students admitted to the self-financing colleges, was not acceptable to it. Further, such a proposal would have no legal validity in the prevailing situation, according to Philip Nelpuraparambil, spokesperson of the council.

Just as cross subsidy was not possible in an educational institution, it was not tenable to enforce different fee structures in one and the same institution, he said in a statement here today.

In the case of institutions set up by minority managements with contributions from the members of the community concerned, priority should be accorded to students belonging to the particular community, in the matter of admission as well as the collection of fees.

In the institutions run by the Christian Churches, special consideration ought to be given to the members of the community concerned. The social and educational status of the members would also be a criterion in deciding the fees, Fr. Philip maintained.

It should also be remembered that the backwardness of those from the other communities too was being considered by the institutions under the Churches, he said.

If merit was to be the criterion for admission in regard to the collection of fees, the economic backwardness should be the yardstick. It was for the Government to finance the education of students with merit but belonging to the economically-weaker sections, the council felt.

The council was also opposed to the reported moves from certain quarters to thrust upon the management the entire financial burden of running an institution.

This would result in unpleasant consequences, including the breakdown of the law and order machinery in the State, the council warned.

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