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Government to reimburse entire fees to SC, ST students

B.S. Ramesh

A notification has been issued modifying the earlier rule

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BANGALORE: The Government has decided to reimburse in toto the fees of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students who are allotted seats in undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses by the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell.

The Government, on December 8, issued this notification modifying the rule on the reimbursement of fees and sent it to the departments of Social Welfare, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Development and Welfare, Higher Education, Health and Family Welfare, Technical Education and Medical Education.

The notification states that "Fees should be reimbursed to those Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe students who are allotted seats from the CET Cell to aided and unaided professional colleges in Karnataka as fixed by the Government to those colleges." The notification will ensure that the students do not have to wait for months for the Government to pay the fees fixed by the unaided and aided colleges. As of now, the Government is paying only that part of the fees fixed by it for government institutions, to students studying even in unaided and private professional colleges. This had resulted in a peculiar situation with the students having to either pay from their own pocket or request the department concerned to release additional grants for payment of full fees. Such a request would take its own time to be processed at the government level, leading to delay in the payment of fees and causing hardship to students. On their part, the managements would insist on the full payment of the fees and ask the students to pay up the remaining portion of the fee that was not reimbursed by the Government. Though students have welcomed the move, they are sore that it has been limited to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidates.

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