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Talks on engineering admission deadlocked

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Self-financing managements fix fee for all seats

To charge Rs.50,000 as
annual fee
Rs.1 lakh deposit in 85 per cent of
the seats

Thiruvananthapuram: Managements of private self-financing engineering colleges in the State will charge Rs.50,000 as fee for all seats in their colleges. In 85 percent of the seats, the deposit will be Rs.1 lakh. In the rest of the seats — the NRI quota — there will be no deposit but a one-time additional fee of Rs.2.5 lakh. The managements will admit students to all seats in their colleges.

These decisions were taken at a late night meeting of the executive committee of the association of the managements here.

“What we are charging in 85 per cent seats is what the Government is charging in the management quota in the self-financing colleges under it,” association president G.P.C. Nayar told The Hindu.

Earlier in the day, following discussions with Education Minister M. A. Baby, association representatives, led by Mr. Nayar, had announced that they would charge Rs.38,700 as fee in 50 per cent of the seats they would leave to the Government. In the rest of the seats barring the NRI quota the fee would be that which individual managements had given in writing to the Fee Regulatory Committee headed by P. A. Mohammed, the representatives had said.

During discussions with Mr. Baby, the association representatives reportedly said they were willing to lower the fee in the 50 per cent government seats in their colleges to Rs.19,350, half the fee that was fixed by the P. A. Mohammed committee. The deposit would then be Rs.1.5 lakh. The Government reportedly did not agree to this package. Following the meeting, the association representatives told mediapersons that Wednesday’s discussion was only about the fee in the ‘government seats.’

According to sources in the association, these decisions need not necessarily mean the end of discussions with the Government. If the Government agrees to the association’s proposal to charge Rs.38,700 as fee (or an equivalent amount as fee and deposit) then the 50:50 formula may still be relevant. However, if that does not materialise and if the managements end up admitting students to all seats then the decisions of the executive committee will hold, the sources added.

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