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`Thomas panel failed to adhere to court recommendations'

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, JUNE 24. The former Advocate General, M. K. Damodaran, has said the K. T. Thomas Committee for Unaided Professional Colleges has failed to evolve a fee structure as per the Supreme Court recommendations.

Speaking at a seminar on fee structure in unaided educational institutions at the School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Mr. Damodaran said the fee structure should have been fixed according to the needs of each professional college.

He said majority of the students appearing in the merit list belong to the elite sections of society.

Mr. Damodaran criticised the committee's decision to fix a uniform fee structure for both merit and management seats in unaided professional colleges. He said the Supreme Court Bench had not said anything against fixing two different fee structures in professional colleges.

The court had actually recommended that students belonging to the economically weaker sections of society should be given either free seats or scholarship.

He said the legislative wing of the Government had set a bad precedent by formulating an ordinance on fee structure in self-financing colleges.

An ordinance is promulgated only during an emergency situation. He said the commercialisation of the educational sector will do harm to the State in future.

The Bar Council of Kerala member, P. Leelakrishnan, the School of Legal Studies director, D. Rajeev and faculty member, G. Sadasivan Nair, spoke on the occasion.

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