Private colleges seek fee revision

Hold discussions with fee fixation committee

The fee fixation committee for self-financing professional colleges led by Justice N.V. Balasubramanian met here on Thursday with representatives of private engineering colleges to discuss the revision of fees.

The team representing self-financing colleges was headed by R.S. Munirathinam, founder of the RMK group of institutions.

The meeting was attended by Mr. Balasubramanian, the higher education secretary Sunil Paliwal and a former dean of Anna University.

Pay commission

The representatives of the private colleges said they were in favour of a revision in the fee structure considering the recent discussions around the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission. “We are not asking for the fee prescribed by the Justice Krishna report. But we would like the government to consider revision based on the teacher-student ratio,” Mr. Munirathinam said.

He added that the next round of discussions were likely to be held in two-three days.