All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) It has recommended fixing minimum and maximum limits on tuition fee charged by engineering and technical institutions in the country. In its proposal to the education ministry, the council has sent a revised fee structure for technical courses including upper and lower limits on fees, a leading news daily reported.
For undergraduate engineering courses, the committee has proposed that the annual tuition fee cannot be less than Rs 79,000, while the maximum has been fixed at Rs 1.89 lakh. The new proposals come seven years after an expert committee first recommended setting an upper limit that colleges can charge as tuition fees.
The expert committee, in its submission in 2015, had suggested fixing the maximum fee for UG four-year engineering courses between Rs 1.44 lakh and Rs 1.58 lakh per annum. However, till now there was no minimum limit on fees.
This comes after the National Medical Commission (NMC) directed private medical colleges to Keep the fees of 50 percent seats at par with the government medical college from next academic session
The Executive Committee of AICTE had on March 10 approved a report of the National Fee Committee headed by Justice (Retd) BN Srikrishna and forwarded it to the Education Ministry for further examination.
Private engineering colleges have long been demanding a fixed minimum fee for technical courses, accusing state authorities of setting impractical limits, creating difficulties in day-to-day functioning.
The Srikrishna committee in its proposal has also suggested fixing an upper limit of Rs 1.4 lakh for engineering diploma courses and Rs 67,000 as the minimum limit. For postgraduate engineering programmes, the panel has recommended Rs 3.03 lakh and Rs 1.41 lakh as the maximum and minimum fee.
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Based on the Supreme Court’s direction in the TMA Pai Foundation case, the committee was set up by the government to suggest guidelines to prevent commercialization of technical education. The top court had suggested that the fees for technical courses should be fixed by the state governments until the national level fee fixation committee makes its recommendations to stop the commercialization of technical education.
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