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Kerala

Kerala

Managements fix new fee structure

Staff Reporter

Engineering course fee ranges from Rs.50,000 to 75,000

KOCHI : The Kerala Self-Financing Engineering College Managements Association has tentatively decided to fix a fee structure between Rs.50,000 and Rs.75,000 a year for a student admitted into a private self-financing engineering college in the State. Each college can decide the fee structure based on the expenditure incurred on areas like infrastructure, teaching, training facilities and quality of the faculty.

G.P.C. Nayar, president of the association, said in a press release here on Friday that the self-financing engineering colleges would fix a fee that was lesser than what the Government spent on a student in its own engineering college.

"According to a statement placed in the Assembly in 2003 by the then Education Minister, it was stated that the Government was spending Rs.74,000 from the public exchequer towards expenses of an engineering student in a Government college. This was apart from the tuition fee of Rs.4,000 collected from the students. It has been four years since this announcement and the management expects a much higher Government spending for the current year", the release said.

No capitation fee

The management association urged the authorities to furnish the details on Government spending on an engineering student under the Right to Information Act. Mr. Nayar said the association unanimously decided not to collect capitation from the candidates. It was decided to admit students based on a rank list prepared by adding the marks scored in Class X, Plus Two and the entrance test conducted by the State Commissioner of Entrance Examinations.

There will be no marks for the interview conducted before admitting the candidates. Each college would prepare a rank list independently on this basis after receiving the applications from candidates. The association did not consider it fair to take the entrance examination alone as the basis for merit.

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