Sunday, April 1, 2018

Affiliation fee for colleges doubled: Madras varsity V-C

CHENNAI, APRIL 01, 2018 00:00 IST  THE HINDU 




Criteria revised, sum hiked from Rs. 5 lakh to Rs. 10 lakh: Duraisamy

The University of Madras has doubled the affiliation fee for colleges, Vice-Chancellor P. Duraisamy informed the Senate on Saturday.

In his introductory remarks, Mr. Duraisamy made the announcement that the fee had been hiked from the existing Rs. 5 lakh to Rs. 10 lakh.

Amendments to the university’s relevant statutes had been made to revise the criteria for granting permanent affiliation to colleges and the Syndicate at its meeting on February 19 recommended that the same be placed in the Senate for approval.

Hanifa Ghosh, Principal of Sembium-based Chevalier T. Thomas Elizabeth College for Women, said her institution had applied for permanent affiliation when the fee was Rs. 1 lakh.

Then it was hiked to Rs. 4 lakh and subsequently to Rs. 5 lakh. Yet it had not been given affiliation.

Now the criteria had been revised and yet again the university had hiked the fee, she noted.

Mr. Duraisamy said the revision of criteria necessitated the fee hike. Ms. Ghosh, however, felt it was unfair on the part of the university to ask for the revised fee when it had paid more than that amount considering the number of years that had passed since her college applied.

Another senator also raised the issue of high fee, but Mr. Duraisamy said the colleges would have to pay the difference amount.

The university has decided to hike the fee for verification and issue of degree certificates and preservation of records. This amount will be collected from students from the academic year 2018-19 onwards.

‘Certificates from 2005’

Mr. Duraisamy said the university planned to create a database of students with unique ID, based on the representation received from principals of the autonomous colleges of the university.

“We are going to upload all certificates from 2005,” Mr. Duraisamy informed.

Students of government non-autonomous colleges need not pay a fee, but those in autonomous, aided and self-financing colleges will have to pay a fee.

Each undergraduate student in government autonomous colleges will pay Rs. 300 per year and M.Phil candidates Rs. 1,000 per year.

Association of University Teachers president J. Gandhiraj objected saying the university should find other ways to fund its programmes, but Mr. Duraisamy said the university could not mobilise funds from other sources.

The university has planned to create a database of students with unique ID

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