AICTE recommends fixing minimum fee for admission to engineering colleges: Reports

NEW DELHI: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has recommended a revised fee structure for tuition fees charged by engineering and technical institutes. The AICTE has put a cap on the minimum and maximum tuition fees and sent it to the ministry of education for its approval, as per reports.

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The AICTE has proposed fixing the minimum annual fee for undergraduate engineering courses at Rs 79,000 and the maximum fee up to Rs 1.89 lakh.

The AICTE is revamping the fee structure for BE and BTech courses after a gap of seven years. “An expert committee first recommended an upper limit that the institutes can charge as tuition fee, but there was no lower limit, or minimum fees, until now,” the Indian Express reported.

This comes after the National Medical Commission (NMC) issued an official notice on February 3, stating that it has been decided that the fees for 50 percent seats in private medical colleges and deemed universities should be on par with that of the government medical colleges of a particular state or Union Territory.

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“AICTE’s executive committee on March 10 approved the report of the National Fee Committee chaired by retired Justice BN Srikrishna and forwarded it to the education ministry, which is presently examining the proposal,” the Times Now News reported.

Revised fee structure for engineering courses

“In 2015, the AICTE had fixed the maximum fee at Rs 1.44 – 1.58 lakh for the BTech/BE courses.” According to the Onmanorama report, the fee structure for the engineering courses will be as follow.