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DYFI demands regulating agency to fix college fees

Staff Correspondent

BIDAR: The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) has urged the State Government to set up an independent regulator to fix fees for professional education and monitor the collection of fees by the colleges.

The regulating agency could be modelled on the lines of the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission and should be entrusted with the responsibility of monitoring the process of deciding the seat matrix each year, K.N. Umesh, president of DYFI's State unit, told presspersons here on Tuesday.

He criticised the Government for agreeing to the 50:50 seat sharing formula with the private managements. He said that the move will destroy the dreams of thousands of poor meritorious students.

He said that the Government had given so many seats to the private managements this year even though 6,000 engineering seats were vacant last year.

Rural quota

According to him, the legal battle over providing rural quota in employment was over with the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal disposing the case of the urban youth who had challenged rural candidates getting government jobs.

It is now the responsibility of the Government to absorb employees who had lost jobs when the Supreme Court stayed appointments on rural quota.

Of the 5,014 persons who had lost jobs due to this, only 3,500 have been absorbed till now. While a few departments are eager to do this, some are reluctant. The Government should direct heads of all departments to absorb them, Mr. Umesh, who is also the president of the Rural Quota Employees' Agitation Committee, said. He urged the Government to release the salaries of literacy facilitators and co-facilitators who have not been paid for the past three years. Literacy promotion has now been entrusted to the zilla panchayats.

The officials of the zilla panchayat contended that they were not responsible for the arrears.

According to him, over 38,000 facilitators and co-facilitators in the 4,935 continued education centres and 1,534 nodal centres were suffering as they had not received their salary for the past 40 months.

Mr. Umesh said that while appointing teachers, the Government should give preference to older candidates.

The Government should also give 75 per cent weightage to marks in the qualifying examination. The DYFI will organise a dharna to demand these changes in Bangalore on June 30, he said.

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