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Fee structure fixed for engineering merit quota

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For self-financing colleges in Government sector

M.A. Baby hopeful of announcing final admission schedule in two days.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Self-financing engineering colleges in the government sector will charge only Rs.6,200 as fee from students who get admission in the 50 per cent open merit quota.

Education Minister M.A. Baby told a press conference here on Thursday that the Non-Resident Indian (NRI) quota will be 15 per cent in these colleges and the students would have to pay Rs.1 lakh as annual fee and Rs.1.25 lakh as caution deposit. Students seeking admission in the remaining 35 per cent management quota seats will have to pay Rs.50,000 as annual fee and Rs.1.25 lakh as caution deposit. Ten per cent of the seats in the engineering college run by the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) will be reserved for meritorious students who are dependents of KSRTC employees.

Pact not signed

He said the Government was yet to sign an agreement with the consortium of managements which run the self-financing engineering colleges in the State on this year’s seat split and fee structure.

He said the fee structure worked out would be submitted to the P.A. Mohammed Committee for approval.

Mr. Baby said the Government had arrived at an agreement with the managements of eight of the 12 self-financing medical colleges in the State on sharing of seats and fee structure for this year’s admission. An agreement was yet to be finalised with the self-financing medical college managements which were members of the Inter-Church Council for Education (ICCE). He said efforts were on to arrive at an agreement with the ICCE on the admission issue within a couple of days. “We hope we will be able to come out with the final admission schedule after the talks within the next two or three days,” the Minister said.

He said that according to the agreement, the colleges had broadly agreed to the formula of 50:50 seat-sharing. However, in self-financing colleges run by minority communities, the Government would select 10 per cent students from the merit list. These students would be selected from the minority community which runs the college.

The students selected under the 50 per cent open merit quota in most of the self-financing medical colleges in the private and cooperative sector will have to pay only Rs.13,000 to Rs.20,000 as annual fee.

Fee for NRI seats

Out of the 50 per cent management quota, 15 per cent will be allocated for Non-Resident Indians. The NRI quota students in Karuna Medical College, MES Medical College, and Kannur Medical College will have to pay Rs.5.5 lakh as annual fee and Rs.5 lakh as deposit. The NRI quota students in the Pariyaram and Kochi cooperative medical colleges and the SUT and Karakkonam medical colleges will have to pay Rs.9 lakh as annual fee, he said.

In the remaining 35 per cent seats, the students in the SUT and Pariyaram colleges would have to pay Rs.4 lakh as annual fee and Rs.3 lakh as deposit. In Cooperative Medical College, Kochi, the students in this quota will have to pay Rs.4.5 lakh as annual fee and Rs.4 lakh as caution deposit. The students in MES Medical College, Karuna Medical College, Kannur Medical College and the Karakkonam medical college will have to pay Rs.5.5 lakh as annual fee and Rs.5 lakh as caution deposit.

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