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Fee for 50% engineering seats fixed at Rs.30,750

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Fee for management quota seats
Rs.55,000-90,000
Rs.1.5 lakh for
NRI seats

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Managements of 39 private self-financing engineering colleges entered into an understanding with the State government on admission norms and fee structure here on Sunday night.

The understanding was arrived at a discussion held between a Cabinet sub-committee comprising Education Minister M.A. Baby and Transport Minister Mathew T. Thomas and representatives of the Kerala Self-financing Engineering College Management Association.

Mr. Baby told reporters that as per the understanding, the colleges would levy a fee of Rs.30,750 in the 50 per cent government seats, a sum between Rs.55,000 and Rs.90,000 for seats in the management quota and Rs.1.5 lakh for NRI seats. Last year, they collected a fee of Rs.15,450 and a deposit Rs.1.50 lakh.

The fee pattern for the management and NRI quota fixed last year would be followed without any change. The deposit system has been scrapped this year. The fee has been fixed at Rs.6,200 in government colleges and 50 per cent seats in government-owned self-financing colleges.

The fee for the remaining 50 per cent seats in government-owned colleges would be in accordance with the decision of the P.A. Mohammed Committee.

In the college run by the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), 10 per cent of the seats would be given to the wards of the employees for a restricted fee. Admissions will be made from the entrance list prepared by the government. Though the Inter Church Council is a member of the association, representatives of the 10 colleges being run by the council did not attend the talks.

Mr. Baby said the public may think their decision to abstain from the talks was on extraneous grounds and not based on educational issues. Association representatives said the council was free to take decisions. The agreement would be signed on June 20, they said.

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