State to fix fee for 200 tech colleges
The common engineering fees row took a new turn on Saturday with the Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC) recommending a fee of Rs 35,000 for 483 engineering colleges out of 700, which had submitted affidavits to it. This is a hike of Rs 4,000 over last year.
It has left the decision to the state government for the fixing of the fee for the remaining nearly 200 colleges which did not submit affidavits. Most of the top colleges in which meritorious students vie for seats were on the latter list.
“The fee in 483 engineering colleges, which submitted affidavits, has been finalised by the AFRC. It has referred the remaining colleges, which did not submit affidavits, to the state government. We will go ahead with the Eamcet counselling as scheduled (from August 27). The admissions committee will meet on Sunday (to finalise the counselling schedule) and the notification will be issued on Monday,” said Prof. Jayaprakash Rao, chairman, Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE).
The AFRC on Saturday held a marathon five-hour meeting to devise the fee structure for engineering colleges and recommend it to the state government. It has received a total of 934 affidavits from the colleges. Of them, 483 are engineering and the rest are MBA, MCA and pharmacy colleges.
Engineering aspirants in the state have to brace themselves for “college-wise differential fees”, while opting for admissions in the ensuing Eamcet engineering counselling for the first time from this year.
While there will be a common fees of Rs 35,000 for 483 engineering colleges as of now , it will be “differential fees” for nearly 200 colleges. It is in these 200 or so colleges that students vie for seats due to quality faculty, infrastructure and good placement record. The students will have to shell out more, ranging from Rs 50,200 to Rs 1.5 lakh per annum for admission in these colleges.
Though there is a proposal to fix a common fee of Rs 50,200 for colleges that refused to accept Rs 35,000 as fees, for now, to enable the commencement of Eamcet engineering counselling from August 27, the managements are vehemently opposing it and demanding college-wise fees, based on their financial statements, salaries, faculty and infrastructure.
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