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It's the money, honey
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There is a popular party joke about things that seem to astonishingly go up all the time. Now add education fees to that list. In the U.K. early this year, the Blair government came under fire for suggesting a fee hike for university students. Promises of more educations loans instead of subsidies also cut no ice. Here, the Vajpayee government took a different stand. Why should the students suffer the burden of six-digit fees, asked Murli Manohar Joshi. The government was ready to pump in money into IIMs so that students from the lower income groups would have a fair chance. It sounded too good to be true. Talk of hidden agendas and meddling did the rounds. Now that the big digits are here to stay, ROHINI MOHAN gets the janata's take on it.
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All is calm on the IIM front now and this year's batch has started its classes.
Maybe a rich fellow can afford to pay, but they should keep income-based reservation. But the real issue is if the government should spend on higher education, while primary schooling needs attention. You can get loan for MBA, but not for primary school.
Basit, telecom executive
The government had better spend money on higher education if they want any progress. And if we want something better than the usual B.Com. and B.Sc., we have to shell out tons of cash. IIMs, or for that matter any institute, should not charge so much.
Sindhu, biotech student
If the IIMs are charging Rs. 2 lakh, they probably have a good reason. Scholarships are there so even people from the lower income levels can afford it. All you need is brains. Money is not an issue.
Anurag, medical electronics student
The government should not interfere in IIMs, or else the standard will fall. In management education, no government school has any name. IIM graduates get job offers even before they leave. Why will they have any difficulty paying off loans?
Preethy, II year B.Sc. student
People can manage primary education; it's not that expensive. But professional courses cost so much. If the Government allots some more money from the budget for higher education, it'll help. There's no need to begin with IIMs; start with degrees like biotech and then move on.
Nisha Xavier, student
Reducing the fees is out of question! They get excellent faculty from all over the world to teach at IIMs; Rs. 30,000 is not enough to fund all that. Whatever the politicians say about financial support, I just don't have that much faith in the government.
Shalini Pandey, infoscience engineer
Concession must be given for those who cannot afford it. Education loans are hard to get; so many documents to be produced, so much of corruption. No institute is big enough to charge so much.
Atif, student
We might get educational loans but we have to repay them, right? Right from the application fees, it's expensive. So we can't even apply to too many institutes to spread out our risk.
Jyothi, commerce student
This need-based scholarship is not really fair. They should proportionally subsidise the rates based on our educational background, how much we have spent on earlier schools and colleges, etc.
Renuka, III year B.Com student
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